Multiple graded stakes winner Tacitus , an earner of more than $3.7 million and a son of three-time leading North American sire Tapit out of champion older female and five-time grade 1 winner Close ...

For a man who delved into the lives of others, not all that much is known about the life of Cornelius Tacitus, historian of Rome under the empire. He was born in 56 or 57 a.d. and is thought to have ...

Perhaps the most fateful decision in all of European history was made by Augustus Caesar, when he chose to fix the border of the Roman Empire at the Rhine. As a result, the region known to the Romans ...

Roman historian Tacitus remains strikingly relevant centuries later, with his sharp observations on power, empire, and human nature. His famous quotes on conquest, corruption, revenge, and control ...

Elizabeth I is better known for her high necklines and defeat of the Spanish Armada than as an avid intellectual, but an article published in the Review of English Studies adds a new translation to ...

The translation of Roman historian Tacitus’s work found its way to Lambeth Palace Library in London in the 17th century. The analysis of unique handwriting in an anonymous 16th century manuscript ...

“To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those princes who understood their own interest and that of the people, it may be ...

Caillan Davenport receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Sometime in the 9th century AD, a monk in the Benedictine monastery of Fulda in modern Germany copied out an extensive Latin ...

NEW YORK -- Tacitus was well rested for a run on his home track. It just didn't work out. The favored Tacitus finished second to Sir Winston in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday. The 3-year-old colt, who ...