Histories of Tacitus e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. IN this translation of the Histories, as in that of the Annals which preceded it, it has been my endeavour to present a version of Tacitus which should carry with it none of the flavour of a translation, but should conform to what Mr. Jowett lays down as the first requirement for a translator, that 'his English shall be English'; which, secondly, should be strictly faithful, both in letter and in spirit, to the original, giving 'the sense, the whole sense, and nothing but the sense'; and thirdly, which should exclude from its vocabulary, so far as is possible, all modernisms: that is, all language which represents things or ideas, or carries with it associations, of a modern character, such as cannot have been present to the mind of Tacitus, or within the range of his comprehension. Such language, when attributed to him in a trans lation, gives an air of unreality to the whole.