The dates of the birth and death of Tacitus are uncertain, but it is probable that he was born about 54 A. and died after 117. He was a contemporary and friend of the younger Pliny, who addressed to him some of his most famous epistles. Tacitus was apparently of the equestrian class, was an advocate by training, and had a reputation as an orator, though none of his speeches has survived. He held a number of important public offices, and married the daughter of Agricola, the conqueror of Britain, whose life he wrote.英文原著 · 《Tacitus on Germany》
Cum maximus omnium impetus ad luxuriant esset. -- Ibid. De Moribus Germanorum, 44. Dio Cassius, liv. Tacitus, Annals, iii. Malta duritiei veterum melius et latius mutata -- Tacitus,Annals, iii. Opulentia paritura mox egestatem. -- Florus, iii.英文原著 · 《The Spirit of Laws》
Tacitus, Annals, iii. This law is given in the Digest, but without mentioning the penalty. It is supposed it was only relegatio, because that of incest was only deportatio. Leg., si quis viduam, ff. de qu?st. Tacitus, Annals, iv. Ibid., ii. 4, iv.英文原著 · 《The Spirit of Laws》
Tacitus, Annals, xiii. Freinshemius, Supplement, dec. Exod., 21. Tacitus, Annals, xiii. Augustus's speech in Dio, lvi. It was formerly the same in China. The two Mahometan Arabs who travelled thither in the ninth century use the word eunuch whenever they speak of a governor of the city. Volume iii, p.英文原著 · 《The Spirit of Laws》
This is the law mentioned by Tacitus, Annals, vi. Semiunciaria usura. As Tacitus says. Annals, vi. This law was passed at the instance of M. Genucius, tribune of the people. -- Livy, vii, towards the end. Verteri jam more foenus receptum erat.英文原著 · 《The Spirit of Laws》
"All right," grunted Gillispie, in tacit acceptance of this apology. "I guess you thought you was in civilized parts."英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
You are pretty brazen for a woman who just admitted, however tacitly, that she just slept with my husband.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
He seemed so solid when I met him, even taciturn, now he's a bundle of nerves.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
By surrounding him with vaccinated kids, you're tacitly admitting that vaccines work.美剧 · 《The Good Doctor》