nisi impunitatis cupido retinuisset, magnis semper conatibu… - Tacitus

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nisi impunitatis cupido retinuisset, magnis semper conatibus adversa.

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Publius Tacitus (or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus; c. 56–after 117 AD), Roman orator, lawyer, and senator. He is considered one of antiquity's greatest historians.

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Native Name: Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Alternative Names: Gaius Cornelius Tacitus • P. Cornelius Tacitus • C. Cornelius Tacitus • Cornelius Tacitus • Publius Cornelius Tacitus Caecina Paetus

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Their shields are black, their bodies dyed. They choose dark nights for battle, and, by the dread and gloomy aspect of their death-like host, strike terror into the foe, who can never confront their strange and almost infernal appearance.

He upbraided Macro, in no obscure and indirect terms, "with forsaking the setting sun and turning to the rising".

All this is unauthenticated, and I shall leave it open.

nisi impunitatis cupido retinuisset, magnis semper conatibus adversa. - Tacitus

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