Note 1718 — Chapter II · TACITUS

The view that Plutarch used Tac. is supported by Clason, Plut. u. Tac., Berl., 1870; Nipperdey, ed. Ann., 1874; Lange, De Tacito Plutarchi auctore, Halle, 1880, and others. Most, however, guess at a common source, either the (inadequate) acta diurna (Hirzel), or Cluvius (H. Peter and Mommsen), or the elder Pliny (Nissen, Hardy, Fabia). Th. Wiedemann, in a Latin diss. of 1857, conjectured that Tac. used Pliny, and Plutarch both Pliny and Cluvius. Borenius (diss. Helsings., 1902) argued that Plutarch used both Tacitus and the common source. For other variations, see Schanz, op. cit.