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Excerpt from Liber XIV Taciti Annalium This edition of the Fourteenth Book of the Annals is taken from the text of the highest authorities. The Fourteenth Book has for many years formed part of the Classics at the Pass Degree Examination at Dublin University, and it is hoped this issue Will be found useful to Degree candidates. Containing as it does much of our early history, surprise may be expressed that this book is not more eagerly read at our Public Schools. The style of Tacitus is often obscure and extremely terse, and requires careful reading; the main endeavours of this small work will be fulfilled, if it affords a slight assistance to the student, in explaining the sense of the difficult constructions, and in noticing a few of the chief incidents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.