# Tacitus publishes the Agricola, a filial biography of Gnaeus Julius Agricola, in 98 CE

Date: 98

## The fact

In 98, under [Trajan](/people/trajan)’s first year as received, [Tacitus](/people/tacitus) wrote De vita Iulii Agricolae: birth, Massilia education, British commands, death in 93, and a closing consolation. He did not command the fleet around Britain. The book is pietas and a document of Domitianic silence, not a modern CV. Archival locator: The Latin Library — Tacitus, Agricola at https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.agri.shtml (The Latin Library). Independent locator: Britannica — Tacitus at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tacitus-Roman-historian (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Context

Biography of a relative is an old Roman form; Tacitus says he needed pardon even to write it. Education here is a public life used later as the main connected account of Flavian Britain. The conquest and Calgacus rows store the imperial harm without cloning this title. Nerva/Trajan ‘libertas’ in the preface is the thaw. Archival locator: The Latin Library — Tacitus, Agricola at https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.agri.shtml (The Latin Library). Independent locator: Britannica — Tacitus at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tacitus-Roman-historian (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Britain conquest harm is a separate Fact, not a twin of this biography. Mixed effects of Tacitus publishes the Agricola, a filial biography of Gnaeus Julius Agricola, in 98 CE are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

Latin Library Agricola is the public Latin. Britannica independently dates the Agricola (and Germania) to 98. Loeb Volume I is a later bilingual. Perseus English is another carrier. No autograph colophon survives; 98 is received from the preface’s political moment. Archival locator: The Latin Library — Tacitus, Agricola at https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.agri.shtml (The Latin Library). Independent locator: Britannica — Tacitus at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tacitus-Roman-historian (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: The Latin Library — Tacitus, Agricola (https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.agri.shtml; The Latin Library).

## Significance

A finished public life after a terror is an education path: names, campaigns, and a theory of greatness under bad emperors. High confidence on the work; the Britain ethnography inside it is mixed and split onto the conquest row. Archival locator: The Latin Library — Tacitus, Agricola at https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.agri.shtml (The Latin Library). Independent locator: Britannica — Tacitus at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tacitus-Roman-historian (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

The attached driver is edu-[digital-learning-access](/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

Established: Agricola as his 98 book. Not established: a printer’s day, or that every British toponym is surveyed. Conventional year. Not a 1970 Loeb revision as the act. Archival locator: The Latin Library — Tacitus, Agricola at https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.agri.shtml (The Latin Library). Independent locator: Britannica — Tacitus at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tacitus-Roman-historian (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Shared responsibility is part of Tacitus publishes the Agricola, a filial biography of Gnaeus Julius Agricola, in 98 CE. Naming Tacitus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0098-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## People

- Tacitus: https://factrail.ai/people/tacitus

## Drivers

- Digital Learning Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/edu-digital-learning-access

## Sources

- https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.agri.shtml
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tacitus-Roman-historian

## Methodology

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