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Tacitus was born on 56[1] in Gallia Narbonensis[2]. He died on 120[3] in Roman Empire[4]. He worked as a historian[5], politician[6], military personnel[7], poet[8], and biographer[9]. He ranks in the top 0.6% of human entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,008 views/month, #6,016 of 1,000,298).[10]
Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[38], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[39], Pauly–Wissowa[40], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[41], Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[42], BEIC Digital Library[43], Library of the World's Best Literature[44], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[45], The New Student's Reference Work[46], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 11[47]
Tacitus has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] He is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]
He has been cited as an influence by Shelby Foote[51], a historian[52], 1916–2005[53], of United States[54], awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship[55]; I, Claudius[56], a literary work[57], written by Robert Graves[58]; and Andrzej Maksymilian Fredro[59], a writer[60], 1620–1679[61], of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth[62].
Works attributed to him include Annals[63], a written work[64]; Germania[65], a literary work[66]; Agricola[67], a written work[68], founded in 0200[69]; Histories[70], a historical non-fiction work[71]; and Dialogus de oratoribus[72], a written work[73]. Entities named for him include he[48].
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APA4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Tacitus. Retrieved October 13, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/tacitus
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"/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14611: 94507, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/296644258|Publius Cornelius Tacitus (#296644258)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8134|Pontifi"
"/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Records of early english drama id: 218676, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/175813231|Tacitus, Publius Cornelius (#175813231)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/cata"
