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DECUS POSTERITAS REPENDIT: Reevaluating Cremutius Cordus in Tacitus' Annals
… as the readiness to die an “ostentatious death” (ambitiosa mors, Agr. 42.4-5), informs, in my final section, my examination of Tacitus’ account of the trial and death of Cordus. Importantly, Tacitus’ depiction of Cordus follows directly after a digression in which Tacitus discusses his own …