Excerpt from Tacitus Dialogus Agricola and Germania: Translated With Introduction and Notes It is interesting to trace in these early works the gradual evolution of Tacitus's literary style. Like most great artists he began by conforming to the best models of the past, and gradually evolved a manner of using language better adapted to express the fine shades of his individual character and meaning. The style of the Dialogue is Ciceronian, fluent, grandiloquent and largely rhythmical, with occa sional glints of the Tacitean ...
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Excerpt from Tacitus Dialogus Agricola and Germania: Translated With Introduction and Notes It is interesting to trace in these early works the gradual evolution of Tacitus's literary style. Like most great artists he began by conforming to the best models of the past, and gradually evolved a manner of using language better adapted to express the fine shades of his individual character and meaning. The style of the Dialogue is Ciceronian, fluent, grandiloquent and largely rhythmical, with occa sional glints of the Tacitean epigram. In the Agricola and the Germania Tacitus has already adopted the style which makes the Annals and Histories immortal, but the note of rhetoric is struck more often than in the later works. In a translation it is only possible to indicate his change of style very inadequately, but those who are interested in the art of writing may gather from the Dialogue the literary doctrine which determined the development of Tacitus's style. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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