Excerpt from The Annals of Tacitus, 1904 I have also put into the notes what I have to say upon the larger historical questions which present themselves in these books, and particularly those connected with the character and government of Tiberius and the qualities of Tacitus as an historian. In the case of a character so complex, so full Of contradictions, as that of Tiberius, and of a writer so careful as to his main facts, but so often warped in his comments upon them, as Tacitus, I have thought that it would be more helpful to discuss these ques tions in connection with the particular passages on which our judgment must be founded, with the aid of such light as external evidence can supply, than to begin by summing up the whole case in a general introduction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.