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Excerpt from Excerpta Tacitiana: Selections From Tacitus: Embracing the More Striking Portions of His Different Works; With Notes Introduction, and a Collection of His Aphorisms, for College and Private Use Tacitus, ' the friend and companion of the younger Pliny, was an eminent citizen of Rome under the Empire, passing through the entire round of honora ble offices, from the questorship to the consulship; and yet comparatively little is known of his life and personal history. Neither his descent, nor the time or place of his birth, nor of his death, is known; though it is clear that he must have been born about the year a.o. 54, and died about the year a.d. 120, after the death of the emperor Trajan, whom he seems to have survived. He thus lived two or three generations after the extinction of the Republic, and hence lifter the golden age of the Latin literature; Recent investigations show his name to have been P. Cornelius Tacitus, instead of C. Cornelius Tacitus, as it has generally been supposed to be. 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.