Tacitus, Cornelius in the library

5 works in the library quote Tacitus, Cornelius — 7 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

through Germania 5 citations · Annales 2 citations

Hugo Grotius 2 citations · Sir Frederick Pollock 2 citations · Gaius 1 citation · Henry Sumner Maine 1 citation · Lucretius 1 citation

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Tacitus, Cornelius is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 2 neutral 2 citations

   ch. 10 · ch. 33

   Specifically identifiable work of Tacitus cited for ethnographic detail.

   Thus Tacitus, speaking of the German slaves, says, “Each has his own separate habitation, and his own household to govern.

2. The Genius of the Common Law Sir Frederick Pollock 1 authority · 1 neutral 2 citations · 4 passages

   ch. 1 2 passages anchored here · viii.: the perpetual quest 2 passages anchored here

   The 'Germania' of Tacitus is explicitly named and repeatedly relied upon as the historical authority for describing the Germanic tribes.

   It is not our business either to support or to contravene the Anglo-Saxon zeal of a Kemble, a Kingsley or a Freeman, when we can find everything we need for our particular purpose without going outside the text of Tacitus and the judicial caution of Gibbon’s comment thereon.

3. Institutes of Roman Law Gaius 1 neutral 1 citation

   ch. 116

   Directly cited with book and chapter.

   This decree passed, according to Tacitus, under Claudius (Annales, 11, 13), according to Suetonius, under Vespasian (Suet.

4. Lectures on the Early History of Institutions Henry Sumner Maine 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

   ch. 6 2 passages anchored here

   Named directly and cited twice as a classical source on Germanic institutions.

   Tacitus describes the companions of the Germanic chief as living with him in his house and supported by his bounty.

5. De Rerum Natura Lucretius 1 neutral 1 citation · 11 passages

   book 1 11 passages anchored here

   Ennius is cited as a poetic authority on the afterlife and metempsychosis; Lucretius neither fully endorses nor refutes his claims but reports them as part of the background of competing views about the soul.

   Yet Ennius too in everlasting verse