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“Tacitus is hypercritical of the Roman Empire. His most famous quote is from a Caledonian chieftain called Calgacus, who was captured and taken to Rome…he puts in Calgacus’s mouth the words, ‘They make desolation and call it peace.’Throughout his writing, Tacitus struggles with the fact that the Pax Romana has brought peace to the world—there is prosperity and political stability—but against that, he sees that the ancient liberties of the Romans have been taken away from them. So Tacitus is quite a trenchant critic of his society, writing at the absolute height of the Roman Empire under Trajan and Hadrian.” Read more...
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