Note 787 — Chapter XI · THE STATE (B) STATE AND HISTORY (continued 3)
Charles Francis Atkinson translation
Tacitus, even, failed to understand. He hated these first Cæsars, because they defended themselves by every imaginable means against a stealthy opposition—in his own circles—an opposition that from Trajan’s time no longer existed. (Yet a little longer, and the Emperor Marcus Aurelius could himself be a Stoic.—Tr.)