Download or read book The Germany, the Agricola written by Cornelius Tacitus and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The style of Tacitus is, perhaps, noted principally for its conciseness. Tacitean brevity is proverbial, and many of his sentences are so brief, and leave so much for the student to read between the lines, that in order to be understood and appreciated the author must be read over and over again, lest the reader miss the point of some of his most excellent thoughts. Such an author presents grave, if not insuperable, difficulties to the translator, but notwithstanding this fact, the following pages cannot but impress the reader with the genius of Tacitus.