1By now the entire populace was filling the Palatine, slaves mixed among them, demanding with discordant clamour the death of Otho and the destruction of the conspirators, as if they were calling for some show in the circus or theatre: they had neither judgement nor sincerity, since on the same day they would demand the opposite with equal eagerness, but followed the inherited custom of flattering any emperor whatever with unrestrained acclamations and empty enthusiasm.
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Tacitus · Historiae I
Histories 1.32
The populace clamours at the palace
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Tacitus, Historiae I. Latin text: C. D. Fisher, Cornelii Taciti Historiarum Libri (Oxford, 1911), public domain; digital text from the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA. Word analysis: drafted by our own tagger (trained on the hand-checked texts on this site), with every doubtful word checked by hand. English translation and section titles: written for this app, each checked against the Latin by a second reader.