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Very little is known concerning the life of Tacitus, the historian, except that which he tells us in his own writings and those incidents which are related of him by his contemporary, Pliny. His full name was Caius Cornelius Tacitus. The date of his birth can only be arrived at by conjecture, and then only approximately. The younger Pliny speaks of him as prope modum aequales, about the same age. Pliny was born in 61. Tacitus, however, occupied the office of quaestor under Vespasian in 78 ., at which time he must, therefore, have been at least twenty-five years of age. This would fix the. | Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Tacitus 1 Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Tacitus Project Gutenberg s The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Tacitus 2 in our series by Tacitus Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook. This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the header without written permission. Please read the legal small print and other information about the eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is important information about your specific rights and restrictions in how the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg and how to get involved. Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers Since 1971 These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers Title The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus Author Tacitus Release Date February 2005 EBook 7524 Yes we are more than one year ahead of schedule This file was first posted on May 13 2003 Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Tacitus Edition 10 2 Language English Character set encoding ISO-Latin-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GERMANY AND AGRICOLA Produced by Anne Soulard Charles Aldarondo Tiffany Vergon Eric Casteleijn and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE GERMANY AND THE AGRICOLA OF TACITUS. THE OXFORD TRANSLATION REVISED WITH NOTES. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY EDWARD BROOKS JR. INTRODUCTION. Very little is known concerning the life of Tacitus the historian except that which he tells us in his own writings and those incidents which are related of him by his contemporary Pliny. His full name was Caius Cornelius Tacitus. The date of his birth can only be arrived at by conjecture and then only approximately. The younger .