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tacitus
/ˈtæsɪtʊs/
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What does tacitus mean?
noun
- Acronym of Thyroid Allostasis in Critical Illness, Tumours, Uraemia and Starvation.
proper noun
- A Roman cognomen, notably borne by Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c.56–117), a historian of ancient Rome and Marcus Claudius Tacitus (c.200–275), a Roman emperor.
- A lunar impact crater.
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/ˈtæsɪtʊs/
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But what an abominable society was that which perverted those divine souls, and produced, moreover, Tacitus and Marcus Aurelius!
The Scots, according to Tacitus, used chariots and iron swords in the battle of the Grampians--"enormes gladii sine mucrone."
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And Tacitus had reason to commend the mother of Agricola for having restrained her son in his too violent appetite for learning.
Now, Tacitus describes the ancient stout and valiant Germans as 'making gaming with a die a very serious occupation of their sober hours.'
I know not who has recently discovered that Tacitus was a declaimer, that Nero was a victim, and that pity is decidedly due to “that poor Holofernes.”