TACITUS

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• TACITUS (noun)
  The noun TACITUS has 1 sense:

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

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

• 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)