These times have the rare good fortune that you may think what you… — Tacitus · Skopia

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These times have the rare good fortune that you may think what you like and say what you think.

In the original Latin

Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet.

110 BC

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Freedom of speech and expression

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Historical literature

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110 BC Classical antiquity

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Current citation

Tacitus. The Histories, translated by W. H. Fyfe. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Original citation

Tacitus. Historiae [Histories]. Venice, c. 110, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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