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Tacitean
[ tas-i-tee-uhn ]
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of Publius Cornelius Tacitus.
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To the same fluent and graceful pen we owe the almost Tacitean utterance: "The punishments are easing off: by dint of vigorous hanging, there will be no more hanging to do."
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Fichte, Herder, Grimm — they and many others repeated the main Tacitean tropes.
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The Nazi Party convention held in Nuremberg in 1936 featured a “Germanic Room” with Tacitean quotations.
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Swann was more Tacitean – initially.
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If the realization of this wish be the hope of statesmen, the historian of culture can only desire that the race remain according to a Tacitean word regarding the Teuton "similar only to itself."
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