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Publius Cornelius Tacitus (c.55-c.117). A Roman historian. "The great power of Tacitus as an historian is due to his skill in discerning the motives which lead men to act, his deep psychological insight. He studies men, not things, and hence he is skilled in character painting. A marked feature of the Tacitean spirit is the tendency to impute a base or unworthy motive to all the actions of those men whom he describes." (The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. XXI, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920, 786-787.)
J. N. Larned, Larned's History of the World, Vol. I (New York: World Syndicate, 1915) 204. (From an Antique Bust)
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