The year of the four emperors and what followed it, by a senator who lived through the terror under Domitian and wrote afterwards. He says he will write without anger or partiality, and then does not quite manage it, which is part of why he is worth reading.
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No other book on this shelf shares a run of seven words with The Histories that is not a formula. On the evidence of the wording, nothing here quotes it and it quotes nothing here. That is not proof of isolation — this measure cannot cross a translation, so it finds nothing between Virgil and Homer either — but there is no quotation to show.
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: W. Hamilton Fyfe, 1912. Source: Gutenberg 16927.
The text here is W. Hamilton Fyfe’s translation, Oxford, 1912, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 16927, set unaltered.
Five books survive of an estimated twelve or fourteen. The text breaks off in the middle of the fifth, and nothing has been supplied to finish it.
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