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TACITUS, MARCUS CLAUDIUS

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TACITUS, See also:MARCUS See also:CLAUDIUS , See also:Roman See also:emperor from the 25th of See also:September A.D. 275 to See also:April 276, was a native of Interanina (See also:Terni) in See also:Umbria. In the course of his See also:long See also:life he held various See also:civil offices, including that of See also:consul in 273, with universal respect. Six months after the assassination of See also:Aurelian he was chosen by the See also:senate to succeed him, and the choice was cordially ratified by the See also:army. During his brief reign he set on See also:foot some domestic reforms, and sought to revive the authority of the senate, but, after a victory over the Goths in See also:Cilicia, he succumbed to hardship and fatigue (or was slain by his own soldiers) at Tyana in See also:Cappadocia. Tacitus, besides being a See also:man of immense See also:wealth (which he bequeathed to the See also:state), 3 See also:Dill, Roman Society from See also:Nero to Marcus Aurelius, Bk. i. ch. i,. 4 See also:Ann. vi. 21, 22. had considerable See also:literary culture, and was proud to claim descent from the historian, whose See also:works he caused to be transcribed at the public experse and placed in the public See also:libraries. Tacitus possessed many admirable qualities, but his See also:gentle See also:character and advanced See also:age unfitted him for the See also:throne in such lawless times. See Life by Vopiscus in Historiae Augustae Scriptores; also See also:Eutropius, ix. 10; Aurelius See also:Victor, Caesares, 36; Zonara3 xii.

28; H. See also:

Schiller, Geschichle der romischen Kaiserzeit, i. 1883; Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie, iii. 2871 if.

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