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PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS

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Overview

PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS (noun)
  The noun PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS has 1 sense:

1. Roman historian who wrote major works on the history of the Roman Empire (56-120)play

  Familiarity information: PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Roman historian who wrote major works on the history of the Roman Empire (56-120)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Gaius Cornelius Tacitus; Publius Cornelius Tacitus; Tacitus

Instance hypernyms:

historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)


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