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Excerpt from Tacitus, Vol. 1 The liberal arts, and gave encouragement to men of genius. In the first eight years of that emperor's reign Tacitus was at leisure to enlarge his mind, and cultivate the studies proper to form an orator and a Roman citizen. 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.