Friday, January 16, 2009

Quote of the Day (Tacitus, on “History’s Highest Function”)

“This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.”— Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (ca. 55 AD-ca. 120 AD), Annals, Book 3

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