maybe I'm just malicious
Aug. 4th, 2006 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ricardienneNow I wouldn't want to deny a hard-working and dedicated patrician his well earned vacation, but doesn't it seem like a rather poor time for the President to take off for a week and a half?
Speaking of patricians (well, not really) Penguin describes Tacitus as "occasionally partisan, or perhaps merely malicious." Teehee, and thence the title of this entry, although I don't think that either partisan or malicious is really a good description of Tacitus. Can one even be a partisan when there aren't any factions? And one of his big points is that there are no factions or debates under the Principate. Just like the United Arab Emirates, where there are no politics, according to that infamously hilarious website N. and I found a few years ago. And "malicious" -- it makes me think of a somber Roman in a toga with a gleefully wicked grin on his face as he raises his stylus.
Speaking of patricians (well, not really) Penguin describes Tacitus as "occasionally partisan, or perhaps merely malicious." Teehee, and thence the title of this entry, although I don't think that either partisan or malicious is really a good description of Tacitus. Can one even be a partisan when there aren't any factions? And one of his big points is that there are no factions or debates under the Principate. Just like the United Arab Emirates, where there are no politics, according to that infamously hilarious website N. and I found a few years ago. And "malicious" -- it makes me think of a somber Roman in a toga with a gleefully wicked grin on his face as he raises his stylus.
