# The Annals preface claims to write without anger and without zeal, after Histories 1.1’s similar distance-claim

Date: 116

## The fact

Annals 1.1 says the writer will relate Tiberius, Gaius, Claudius, and Nero sine ira et studio, causes being far away. Histories 1.1 already claimed incorrupt faithfulness after listing his career debts. He did not found a modern archive law. Archival locator: The Latin Library — Tacitus, Annals 1 at https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.ann1.shtml (The Latin Library). Independent locator: LacusCurtius — Tacitus, Annals and Histories at https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/home.html (University of Chicago / LacusCurtius).

## Context

Data here means a stated standard against flattery and hatred. The books still drip innuendo; that tension is the point, not a reason to drop the claim. It is not a twin of the whole Annals. Personal-data language on the modern driver is analogical: a public rule for what a record owes the dead. Archival locator: The Latin Library — Tacitus, Annals 1 at https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.ann1.shtml (The Latin Library). Independent locator: LacusCurtius — Tacitus, Annals and Histories at https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/home.html (University of Chicago / LacusCurtius).

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

## Evidence and sources

Latin Library Annals 1.1 and Histories 1.1 are the public Latin. LacusCurtius English faces the same. Britannica treats the claim as his famous profession. Loeb is later. No ethics-board filing exists. Archival locator: The Latin Library — Tacitus, Annals 1 at https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.ann1.shtml (The Latin Library). Independent locator: LacusCurtius — Tacitus, Annals and Histories at https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/home.html (University of Chicago / LacusCurtius).

Official or archival record: The Latin Library — Tacitus, Annals 1 (https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.ann1.shtml; The Latin Library).

## Significance

A portable anti-flattery preface is a data path. High confidence on the sentences; fulfilment is contested and stored as medium. Later journalistic mottoes are reception. Archival locator: The Latin Library — Tacitus, Annals 1 at https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.ann1.shtml (The Latin Library). Independent locator: LacusCurtius — Tacitus, Annals and Histories at https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/home.html (University of Chicago / LacusCurtius).

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of The Annals preface claims to write without anger and without zeal, after Histories 1.1’s similar distance-claim are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

Established: the two prefaces as his. Not established: that every chapter obeys them, or a unique draft date. Conventional Annals-year attachment. Not a 1925 translation year. Archival locator: The Latin Library — Tacitus, Annals 1 at https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.ann1.shtml (The Latin Library). Independent locator: LacusCurtius — Tacitus, Annals and Histories at https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/home.html (University of Chicago / LacusCurtius).

Shared responsibility is part of The Annals preface claims to write without anger and without zeal, after Histories 1.1’s similar distance-claim. Naming Tacitus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0116-01-01 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.

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

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## People

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

## Drivers

- Personal-Data Protection: https://factrail.ai/drivers/personal-data-protection

## Sources

- https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/home.html
- https://www.thelatinlibrary.com/tacitus/tac.ann1.shtml

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/tac-sine-ira-studio