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Tacitus, Cornelius

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Tacitus, Cornelius (AD 55–c.117). Roman historian and biographer, often judged one of the most reliable of all classical commentators. Of his five surviving volumes, the short Germania (De origine situ moribus ac populis Germanorum, written c. AD 98) is a trove of ethnographic information on peoples living north of the Alps, even though there is no evidence Tacitus had visited the regions. His comments on the Celts, while often cited, are incidental in the text.

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See Agricola, Germania, Loeb Classical Library No. 35 (Cambridge, Mass., 1968); Agricola (Cambridge, Mass., 1980); The Histories (London, 1993)

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Tacitus, Cornelius

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Tacitus, Cornelius (c.55-after c.113), Roman historian. In his Annals (15.44), he describes Nero's persecution of the Christians of Rome as scapegoats for the fire in the city (AD 64). The passage is the earliest non-Christian reference to the Crucifixion.

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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "Tacitus, Cornelius." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-TacitusCornelius.html

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