Tacitus · The Annals of Rome in Latin + English (SPQR Study Guides Book 11)

Excerpt from The Dialogus of Publius Cornelius Tacitus

The critics problems, such as they are, that have been raised by these discoveries cannot be dealt with here at any length. They centre mainly round the Dialogue. It is a testimony to the general faithful ness of the tradition that the text of the Germanic and the Agricola remains on the whole undisturbed. And even for the Dialogue the main surviving difficulty turns not so much on textual problems as on the allocation. Of their parts to the various speakers, and the length of the great lacuna at the end of ch. 35. It is with the Dialogue that I must concern myself in the remainder of this brief introduction.

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