How Did Tacitus Change In Julius Caesar

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Tacitus throughout his writings was often critical of the changes he saw happening around him in Rome. He condemned what he saw as the moral decay of his age, lamenting the fact that in Rome, at least in sixty-eight CE, where the narrative for his Histories begins, “Sacred rites were profaned; there was profligacy in the highest ranks” (Tac. Hist. 1.2). However, a couple of chapters later he mentions, albeit less critically, another type of change that had come to pass in Rome - “Now had been divulged that secret of the empire, that emperors could be made elsewhere than at Rome.” (Tac. Hist. 1.4). What Tacitus is referring to here is the recent (for his contemporaries) development of a new type of Emperor – Emperors that did not seize power
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