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Of or relating to a second century Roman statesman and historian or his writings.

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Usage examples (13)
  • Several public schoolmasters, I understand, have already noted its possibilities as a suitable extract for translation into Tacitean Latin.
  • Here too we hunt, and trap, and eat berries of the undergrowth, like Algonkins or Tacitean Germans, many of whom had no more skill in cattle than Algonkins.
  • Tacitean brevity is proverbial, and many of his sentences are so brief, and leave so much for the student to read between the lines, that in order to be understood and...
  • Wonderfully Tacitean is a later comment of the Pasha -- an Armenian by birth.
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