TACITUS

Publius (?) Cornelius Tacitus, Agricola and Germania (Penguin Classics), translated by Harold Mattingly, revised with an introduction and notes by J. B. Rives (New York: Penguin Books, 1948, 2009) (From Agricola: "In time, the discretion that grows with age restrained him; he came away from philosophy with its hardest lesson learned--a sense of proportion." Id. at 5. "It is a distinctive feature of human nature to hate those whom you have harmed . . . ." Id. at 28. From the backcover: "Agricola is both a portrait of Julius Agricola--the most famous governor of Roman Britain and Tacitus' well-loved and respected father-in-law--and the first detailed account of Britain that has come down to us. If offers fascinating descriptions of the geography, climate and peoples of the country, and a succinct report of the early stages of the Roman occupation. The warlike Germanic tribes are the focus of Tacitus' attention in Germania, which, like Agricola, often compares the behavior of 'barbarian' peoples favorably with the decadence and corruption of imperial Rome.").