Cornelli Taciti Annalium Libri XIII-XVI

Cornelii Taciti Annalium Libri XIII–XVI (1962) — ed. Henry Furneaux
Oxford: Oxford University Press

Step into the darkest corridors of Julio-Claudian Rome with Tacitus at his iciest best. This classic Oxford edition gathers Books 13–16 of the Annals—the reigns of Nero and the slow-motion collapse of everything decent—presented in crisp Latin with Henry Furneaux’s time-tested notes. Long trusted by students and scholars, Furneaux’s commentary is compact, incisive, and wonderfully old-school: the kind that explains a knotty ablative absolute and then quietly gossips about Roman politics.

Why this copy from Crappy Old Books?

• Proper Oxford cloth: the durable OUP library binding you can thump on a desk without fear.

• Furneaux’s apparatus & notes: lean, learned, and still seriously useful for close reading.

• Prime slice of Tacitus: the Great Fire, the Pisonian conspiracy, philosophy vs. tyranny—Latin prose at knife-edge.

• Classics-shelf essential: perfect for revision, translation drills, or just admiring how economical Latin can be when it’s sharpening a dagger.

Details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press

• Year: 1962 reprint of the standard Furneaux edition

• Language: Latin (with scholarly notes in English)

• Format: Hardback, OUP series uniform

Condition (our brutally honest take):
[Gently handled academic veteran: clean text, sturdy binding, some pencil ghosts in the margins where smarter people have been before you. Dust-jacket, if present, has seen things. Exactly the sort of book that smells faintly of libraries and victory.]

Add it to your cart—because nothing says “leisure reading” like imperial paranoia in impeccable Latin.

This is an ex-school book from Old Palace school in Croydon.

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