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Excerpt from The Sixth Book of the Annals, 1884 The Sixth Book of the Annals of Tacitus embraces a period of five years, from a-.d. 32 to 37. They are the closing years of the reign of the third of the Caesars, Tiberius Claudius Nero. Almost all the Fifth Book is unfortunately lost. In this was related the fall of Sejanus, the proseou tions arising out of which rendered this period a reign of terror. Withthese the sixthbook opens. Tiberius encouraged them, and Tacitus implies that he did so with a. Peculiarly savage vindictiveness. Of all the blots on. The emperor's memory, many of which may well be due to perverse and wilful misrepresentation, these are unquestionably the blackest and most hideous. 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.