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[ricardienne]

This book looks terrible but awesomely so: British chieftain's son in exile/captivity in Rome hangs out with Tacitus and Titus and has adventures? Sign me up! Only it appears to be self-published and basically non-existent. Too bad.

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[ricardienne.livejournal.com]

I think it's an ironic name thing -- or rather, a coincidentally ironic name thing. "tacitus" is just the past participle of "taceo" (I shut up); I think I may have read an article that suggested that the cognomen is actually a Spanish or Gallic or maybe Etruscan name that got latinized and ended up looking like/being assumed to be from taceo. Tacitus-Tacitus wasn't the first person to have it, anyway.