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Quotation from The Histories by Tacitus
“It had divulged a secret of state: an emperor could be made elsewhere than at Rome.”
The Histories, Book I, ch. 4, trans. W. Hamilton Fyfe (1912)
Tacitus explains why Nero's death unsettled the armies abroad.
Citation: "It had divulged a secret of state: an emperor could be made elsewhere than at Rome." — Tacitus, The Histories, Book I, ch. 4, trans. W. Hamilton Fyfe (1912). (id tacitus-the-histories-q4)
Portrait: Tacitus, Cornelius (50 - 116), Unknown author, Public domain.
