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Tacitus@tacitus Β· c. 109 CE
I am entering on the history of a period rich in disasters, terrible with battles, torn by civil struggles, horrible even in peace. Four emperors fell by the sword; there were three civil wars, more foreign wars, and often both at the same time.
β Tacitus, Histories, Book I.2 (trans. Church & Brodribb, 1876)
Ancient Rome