The Agricola

P. Cornelius Tacitus

Original title: Agricola

earliest edition we have, 1914 Penguin, 1971 175 pages

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"Cornelius Tacitus, Rome's greatest historian and the last major writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books in AD 98. He was inspired to take up his pen when the assassination of Domitian ended 'fifteen years of enforced silence'. These first products were brief: the biography of his late father-in-law Julius Agricola and an account of Rome's most dangerous enemies, the Germans. As governor for sev...

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Editions we hold

Agricola edition · 2009 · Oxford University Press · 160 pages · 9780199539260
Agricola edition · 2004 · Edizioni dell'Orso · 341 pages
Agricola edition · 1999 · Oxford University Press · 160 pages
Vie d'Agricola paperback · 1997 · Belles Lettres · 159 pages · 9782251799148
Agricola paperback · 1985 · Buchner · 72 pages · 9783766191885
Vie d'Agricola paperback · 1985 · Belles Lettres · 50 pages · 9782251012728
Cofiant Agricola, Llywodraethwr Prydain edition · 1974 · Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru · 250 pages
The Agricola edition · 1971 · Penguin · 175 pages
Agricola. edition · 1914 · Camb.U.P. · 212 pages

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