extitere

Updated: May 3, 2025

This is not to be met with in the writings of any of the old Romans; it would seem, then, that the Annals was, as is alleged, a spurious composition of the fifteenth century, and that the same hand wrote both parts. "Extitere" is a word never used by Tacitus; or, more properly, he so avoids it that he uses it but once. Bracciolini, on the contrary, is very much given to the use of it.

John Wilson Ross - Tacitus and Bracciolini : The Annals Forged in the XVth Century