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Updated: May 28, 2025

There are many English translations of Tacitus: the first, by Sir Henry Savile and "one Greenway"; the former, says Gordon, "has performed like a schoolmaster, the latter like a school-boy." Anthony a Wood writes in another strain, in the "Athenae Oxonienis": "A rare Translation it is, and the Work of a very Great Master indeed, both in our Tongue and that Story.

Cornelius Tacitus - The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; : With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola