William Jackson Brodribb

Name: Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition
Author: William Jackson Brodribb

Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

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“Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition”, published in 1888, is a work by William Jackson Brodribb. It explores elements such as Tacitus, reign and Titus.

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William Jackson Brodribb, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ TACITUS. The famous Roman historian Tacitus, who ranks beyond dispute in the highest place among men of letters of all ages, lived in the latter half of the first and in the early part of the 2d century of our era, through the reigns of the emperors Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, Nerva, Trajan. All we know of his personal history is from allusions to himself in his own works, and from eleven letters addressed to him by his very intimate friend the younger Pliny. ”

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William Jackson Brodribb, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ The emperor visited the scenes of desolation and contributed liberally to the relief of the distressed inhabitants. During his absence a fire raged for three days at Rome, in which the Capitol was burnt; then followed a pestilence, and again Titus not only helped freely with his purse, but took pains to acquaint himself with the sufferers and gave them his personal sympathy. Italy and the Roman world generally were quiet and peaceful during this brief reign. The only fighting was in Britain under Agricola, who in the year 80 carried the Roman arms into Scotland as far as the Tay. ”

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William Jackson Brodribb, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ Still for the most part he writes as a man who felt deeply that the world was altogether "out of joint"; the empire was in itself in his view a huge blunder, and answerable more or less directly for all the diseases of society, for all the demoralization and corruption of the great world of Rome, though as to the provinces he admits that they were better off in many ways under the emperors than they had been in the last days of the republic. ”

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William Jackson Brodribb, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ It is worth noticing that the emperor Tacitus in the 3d century claimed descent from him, and directed that ten copies of his works should he made every year and deposited in the public libraries. He also had a tomb built to his memory, which was destroyed by order of Pope Pius V. in the latter part of the 16th century. Tacitus, as we gather from one of Pliny’s letters, [8] had a great reputation during his lifetime. On one occasion a Roman knight, who sat by his side in the circus at the celebration of some games, asked him, "Are you from Italy or from the provinces?" ”

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William Jackson Brodribb, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ Educated in the imperial court, he was thoroughly trained in all elegant accomplishments: he could speak Greek fluently, and could compose verses; he was a proficient in music; he could write shorthand, and could imitate handwriting so skilfully that he used to say that he might have been a most successful forger. ”

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William Jackson Brodribb, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ The Dialogue on Orators discusses, in the form of a conversation which Tacitus professes to have heard (as a young man) between some eminent men at the Roman bar, the causes of the decay of eloquence under the empire. There are some interesting remarks in it on the change for the worse that had taken place in the education of Roman lads. ”

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William Jackson Brodribb, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ On the whole he appears to have inclined to the philosophical theory of "necessitarianism," that every man’s future is fixed from his birth; but we must not fasten on him any particular theory of the world or of the universe. ”

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William Jackson Brodribb, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ And he pays [9] him the high compliment, "I know that your Histories will be immortal, and this makes me the more anxious that my name should appear in them."
The following is a list of Tacitus’s remaining works, arranged in their probable chronological order, which may be approximately inferred from internal evidence:— (1) the Dialogue on Orators, about 76 or 77; (2) the Life of Agricola, 97 or 98; (3) the Germany, 98, published probably in 99; (4) the Histories (Historiæ) , completed probably by 115 or 116, the last years of Trajan’s reign (he must have been at work on them for many years) ”

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William Jackson Brodribb, Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1888)

“ He was very handsome, with a fine commanding expression, and a vigorous frame, well trained in all the exercises of a soldier. As a young man he served with credit in Germany and in Britain, and he practised at the bar. Soon he had the command of a legion, and joined his father in Syria; he took an active part in the Jewish war, capturing several important fortresses, among them Tarichaeae and Gamala. In 68 he went at his father's bidding on a visit of congratulation to the newly proclaimed emperor, Galba ”

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