Crossword-Solution: TACITUS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TACITUS | anagram | ATTICUS, CATSUIT |
We have 12 clues for the answer “TACITUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Agricola" author | 1 answer |
| Historian of 1st cen. | 1 answer |
| Historian understood country | 1 answer |
| Historian whose name is Latin for "silent" | 1 answer |
| Roman historian who wrote major works on the history of the Roman Empire | 1 answer |
| Roman historian, circa 100 A.D. | 1 answer |
| Roman orator-historian | 1 answer |
| Writer of the ethnography "Germania" | 1 answer |
| Early Roman historian | 2 answers |
| ROMAN history | 4 answers |
| Roman historian | 7 answers |
| ANNALES AUTHOR | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings,
whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by
a specific exciting cause and manifested by some sensible effect on the
body.
Hint 2 anagram
INOMOTE
Hint 3 another clue
A FEELING OF GREAT ELATION
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Sentences with TACITUS (5)
Literature by an Englishman who translated Tacitus under the spires of Oxford after he retired from the range.
The Thames by evening in June, memories that reached from Tacitus to Wordsworth, the embrasure that extends in front of the Egyptian obelisk for a standing place, and some children "swimming a dog";--that was the scene and circumstance of my first meeting with his father.
Boswell’s is, indeed, a very special case, and almost a generic; but it is not only in Boswell, it is in every biography with any salt of life, it is in every history where events and men, rather than ideas, are presented—in Tacitus, in Carlyle, in Michelet, in Macaulay—that the novelist will find many of his own methods most conspicuously and adroitly handled.
Now, Tacitus describes the ancient stout and valiant Germans as 'making gaming with a die a very serious occupation of their sober hours.' Like the 'everlasting Negro,' they, too, made their last throw for personal liberty, the loser going into voluntary slavery, and the winner selling such slaves as soon as possible to strangers, in order not to have to blush for such a victory! If the 'nigger' could blush, he might certainly do so for the white man in such a conjuncture.
There is a sense in which Addison is superior to Carlyle; a sense in which Cicero is better than Tacitus, in which Voltaire excels Montaigne: it certainly lies not in the choice of words; it lies not in the interest or value of the matter; it lies not in force of intellect, of poetry, or of humour.
Quotes with TACITUS (3)
Reading list (1972 edition)[edit]1. Homer — Iliad, Odyssey2. The Old Testament3. Aeschylus — Tragedies4. Sophocles — Tragedies5. Herodotus — Histories6. Euripides — Tragedies7. Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War8. Hippocrates — Medical Writings9. Aristophanes — Comedies10. Plato — Dialogues11. Aristotle — Works12. Epicurus — Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus13. Euclid — Elements14. Archimedes — Works15. Apollonius of Perga — Conic Sections16. Cicero — Works17…
Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.
If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is essentially the history of manners, turned into a story and a play, as is History itself often enough. And there is no other difference than this: that the one, the Novel, cloaks its manners under the disguise of invented characters, while the other, History, provides names and addresses. Only, the Novel probes much deeper than history. It has an ideal, and History has none; it …
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Appears in: Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1963–2024).