id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1075 Tacitus - Wikipedia .html text/html 6251 748 66 Tacitus' other writings discuss oratory (in dialogue format, see Dialogus de oratoribus), Germania (in De origine et situ Germanorum), and the life of his father-in-law, Agricola, the general responsible for much of the Roman conquest of Britain, mainly focusing on his campaign in Britannia (De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae). Tacitus was born in 56 or 57 to an equestrian family;[5] but the exact place and date of his birth are not known, and his praenomen (first name) is also unknown; in the letters of Sidonius Apollinaris his name is Gaius, but in the major surviving manuscript of his work his name is given as Publius.[6] One scholar's suggestion of Sextus has gained no approval.[7] A passage of Annals 1.1, where Tacitus laments the state of the historiography regarding the last four emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, illustrates his style: "The histories of Tiberius, Gaius, Claudius and Nero, while they were in power, were falsified through terror and after their death were written under the irritation of a recent hatred",[33] or in a word-for-word translation: ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1075.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1075.txt