History · 1912
The Histories
Fyfe translation, 1912
Translated by W. Hamilton Fyfe (1912)
Tacitus's account of the civil wars of AD 69 and the Flavian accession: Galba, Otho and Vitellius, the rise of Vespasian, the revolt of Civilis on the Rhine and the siege of Jerusalem, in W. Hamilton Fyfe's English prose of 1912. The surviving books end mid-narrative.
Contents · 5 parts