Several public schoolmasters, I understand, have already noted its possibilities as a suitable extract for translation into Tacitean Latin. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Unity of Civilization] Reference
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 appreciated the author must be read over and over again, lest the reader miss the point of some of his most excellent thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus] Reference
Wonderfully Tacitean is a later comment of the Pasha -- an Armenian by birth. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography] Reference
Tacitean style is still immature, though it is well on the way towards maturity. From Wordnik.com. [Latin Literature] Reference
He had a Tacitean power of drawing a portrait with a phrase which haunted the memory. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Froude] Reference
I wondered whether, in similar circumstances, I should have been able to resist the temptation to be Tacitean. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography] Reference
Tacitus has described him in a passage, remarkable even among Tacitean portraits for its extraordinary brilliance. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference
But his discourse, usually ample and florid as befitted both his person and his calling, was couched on this occasion in Tacitean brevity. From Wordnik.com. [South Wind] Reference
The pictures drawn of the Empire by the historian and the satirist are in such striking accordance that they create a greater plausibility for the common view they hold than could be given by any single representation; and while Juvenal lends additional weight and colour to the Tacitean presentment of the imperial legend, he acquires from it in return an importance which could hardly otherwise have been sustained by his exaggerated and glaring rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [Latin Literature] Reference
Wonderfully Tacitean is a later comment of the Pasha ” an Armenian by birth. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Living]
Machiavelli relates this act of perfidy with Tacitean conciseness (1st. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots] Reference
Tacitean victory ain’t an option either. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Demand Sane Leadership On Iran] Reference
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