Note 1742 — Chapter II · TACITUS
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In reviewing De Groot’s Antike Prosarbythmus, J.R.S., XI. (1921), pp. 116-117, I pointed out that the identity of the possibly un-Tacitean title Annales with that of Ennius’s poem makes a shaky foundation for the guess that Tacitus is citing Ennius, and a shakier one for the dogmatic statement (op. cit., p. 27), “die Annalen fängt er aber so gar mit einem ganzen Hexameter des Ennius an.”