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The Preface to Tacitus' Annals: More Sallust?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

A. J. Woodman
A. J. Woodman
Affiliation:
University of Durham
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Extract

Commentators on the Annals naturally observe that the famous first sentence of Tacitus' preface (‘Urbem Romam a principio reges habuere’) alludes to the preface of Sallust's Bellum Catilinae (6.1 ‘Urbem Romam, sicuti ego accepi, condidere atque habuere initio Troiani’). But it seems that none of them has observed a further allusion to Sallust's preface in the last sentence of Tacitus', which is almost equally famous (1.1.3)

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Shorter Notes
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , December 1992 , pp. 567 - 568
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1992

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1 I am grateful to Alyson Wright for a Pandora search and to Ronald Martin for improving an earlier draft.