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Tacitus
Tacitus@tacitus Β· c. 117 CE

The old were mostly born before the civil wars. How many even of the younger generation were born in the intervening years of revolution? How few were left who had seen the republic!

β€” Tacitus, Annals, Book I.3 (trans. Church & Brodribb, 1876)

Ancient Rome

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