"Tacitus"@en . "Ancient Roman historian" . . . . . "Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (/\u02C8t\u00E6s\u0268t\u0259s/; Classical Latin: [\u02C8tak\u026At\u028As]; c. AD 56 \u2013 after 117) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works\u2014the Annals and the Histories\u2014examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors (AD 69). These two works span the history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus in AD 14 to the years of the First Jewish\u2013Roman War in AD 70."@en . . . . . . . .