Tacitus

Tacitus (c. 56/57-117+)

"It seems to me a historian's foremost duty [is] to ensure that merit is recorded, and to confront evil deeds and words with the fear of posterity's denunciations."

• The Annals of Imperial Rome (Book III, section 65), by Tacitus, translated by Michael Grant (Penguin Classics, 1996).

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