Excerpt from The Poetical Elements in the Diction and Syntax of TacitusCertain laws in the composition of Tacitus' writings. Psychic factors. Tacitus'. Conception of the function of history. Poetical tendency in his works.Life of Tacitus How affected by the time in which he lived. Lack of freedom of speech. His early style. Necessity of deviation from Cicero's style.Roman Education. Subjective and objective feeling. No public schools at Rome. Earliest training. Elementary Schools. Grammar Schools. Introduction of Rhetoric. Poetical works as text books. Writing from poetry into prose.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.