people
Graeci
the Greeks
also: Graeculi
The Greeks; in the dialogue both the great models of eloquence and, pejoratively ('little Greeks'), the fabulists whose myths Roman poets dramatize.
Reading notes
- The Annals §4.58 Greeks
The Greek men of letters whose talk lightened Tiberius's retinue; throughout, Tacitus marks Greek learning and Greek artifice alike.
- A Dialogue on Oratory §3 little Greeks
'Graeculi,' a contemptuous diminutive for Greeks; here, the Greek myths from which Roman tragedy borrows its plots.
- The Histories §2.4 Greek
The Greeks, whom Tacitus describes as fond of ascribing marvels to an uncertain antiquity.