Note 38 — Chapter II · Sources

That Tacitus disliked Tiberius’ conservative attitude toward Germany is clear from such a passage as Ann., IV, 74, where it is implied also that for selfish reasons Tiberius was unwilling to entrust the war to any commander who might thus gain military prestige: “clarum inde inter Germanos Frisium nomen, dissimulante Tiberio damna, ne cui bellum permitteret. Neque senatus in eo cura an imperii extrema dehonestarentur.”