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Originally Posted by Jpagan
Sorry, I meant to ask, wasn't Tacitus a real book by Voltaire? A satire?
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Google comes up empty for Voltaire-Tacitus links, aside from a short passage comparing the two as historians in "
Amusements in retirement; or, The influence of science, literature, and the liberal arts, on the manners and happiness of private life, by the author of The philosophy of nature" by Charles Bucke (p. 63, pub. 1816), available as a Google ebook.
"Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (AD 56 – AD 117) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire..."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus