Averrunci, Or, the Skowrers
Ponderous and New Considerations Upon the First Six Books of the Annals of Cornelius Tacitus Concerning Tiberius Caesar
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"According to [Frank Burr] Marsh ... the task of revising the Tacitean portrait of Tiberius began in the mid-nineteenth century ... The text we are presenting here, however, reveals a much earlier attempt to reassess, and rehabilitate, the figure of Tiberius. Aimed at 'scouring' Tacitus' (tendentious) account of his character and reign and defending the cause of monarchy, this commentary is found in a single manuscript in the collection of the Biblioteca Durazzo Giustiniani in Genoa (MS A IV 5)."--Introduction, p. [1].