5 moments

1. Secular Games service

   0088-01-01 · Rome, Italy

   

   Tacitus attended and assisted with Domitian’s Secular Games while serving as praetor and a member of the quindecimviral priesthood. The city coordinate is representative: the Secular Games involved multiple venues in Rome.

2. Funeral oration for Verginius Rufus

   0097-01-01 · Rostra, Roman Forum, Rome, Italy

   

   As suffect consul, Tacitus delivered the funeral oration for Lucius Verginius Rufus at his public funeral in the Roman Forum.

3. Prosecution of Marius Priscus

   0100-01-01 · Senate, Rome, Italy

   

   Tacitus and Pliny the Younger represented African provincials in the Senate’s corruption case against the former proconsul Marius Priscus. The proceedings occurred in January AD 100; the precise Senate meeting-house is not specified.

4. Return to Rome

   0104-01-01 · Rome, Italy

   

   Pliny welcomed Tacitus back to Rome, directly documenting Tacitus’s arrival in the city after an otherwise poorly recorded absence. The letter is conventionally dated to about AD 104; dating within Pliny's Book 4 is not exact.

5. Proconsulship of Asia

   0112-01-01 · Roman province of Asia, western Anatolia, Turkey

   

   Tacitus held the proconsular governorship of the Roman province of Asia, the culminating civilian office of his senatorial career. The coordinate is a representative point within the province near Sardis; the evidence establishes provincial service, not a particular residence or itinerary.