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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4874392, member: 110504"]...Thanks for that, too. Fictional or not, Tacitus' generosity in ascribing it to a Celt (even those Really crazy ones, who invented whiskey) is a remarkable foil to the truism (...as true in this case as elsewhere) that history is written by the victors.</p><p>Somewhere, I read that the emperor Tacitus at least may have been some relation to the historian. Does that have any basis in primary sources, ...or even responsible secondary ones?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4874392, member: 110504"]...Thanks for that, too. Fictional or not, Tacitus' generosity in ascribing it to a Celt (even those Really crazy ones, who invented whiskey) is a remarkable foil to the truism (...as true in this case as elsewhere) that history is written by the victors. Somewhere, I read that the emperor Tacitus at least may have been some relation to the historian. Does that have any basis in primary sources, ...or even responsible secondary ones?[/QUOTE]
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