Works of Tacitus
Tacitus's historical works, referenced by Lacordaire as inspired by the memory of republican Rome under the tyranny of Nero.
Pope Clement VIII, Jerome's Prefaces, On Worship
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ON THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST IN THE SCRIPTURES.
— Lacordaire pairs Tacitus with Livy as the great historians Rome produced
"it was Rome still that inspired Tacitus, by bringing back to him under Nero the soul of its consuls"