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TACITUS, MARCUS CLAUDIUS

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 347 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SUS-TAV
TACITUS, MARCUS CLAUDIUS , Roman emperor from the 25th of September A.D. 275 to
April
  276, was a native of Interanina (Terni) in
Umbria
 . In the course of his
long
 
life
  he held various civil offices, including that of
consul
  in 273, with universal respect. Six months after the assassination of
Aurelian
  he was chosen by the
senate
  to succeed him, and the choice was cordially ratified by the army. During his brief reign he set on foot some domestic reforms, and sought to revive the authority of the
senate
 , but, after a victory over the Goths in Cilicia, he succumbed to hardship and fatigue (or was slain by his own soldiers) at Tyana in Cappadocia. Tacitus, besides being a man of immense wealth (which he bequeathed to the state),
3 Dill, Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius, Bk. i. ch. i,. 4 Ann. vi. 21, 22.
had considerable literary culture, and was proud to claim descent from the historian, whose works he caused to be transcribed at the public experse and placed in the public libraries. Tacitus possessed many admirable qualities, but his gentle
character
  and advanced age unfitted him for the throne in such lawless times.
See
Life
  by Vopiscus in Historiae Augustae Scriptores; also Eutropius, ix. 10; Aurelius
Victor
 , Caesares, 36; Zonara3 xii. 28; H. Schiller, Geschichle der romischen Kaiserzeit, i. 1883; Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie, iii. 2871 if.


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