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tacitus
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Noun tacitus has 1 sense
- tacitus(n = noun.person) gaius cornelius tacitus, publius cornelius tacitus - Roman historian who wrote major works on the history of the Roman Empire (56-120); Array is a kind of historian, historiographer
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Conciseness
N conciseness, brevity, the soul of wit, laconism, Tacitus, ellipsis, syncope, abridgment, compression, epitome, monostich, brunch word, portmanteau word, concise, brief, short, terse, close, to the point, exact, neat, compact, compressed, condensed, pointed, laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary, pregnant, compendious, succinct, elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp, sententious, concisely, briefly, summarily, in brief, in short, in a word, in a few words, for shortness sake, to come to the point, to make a long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief, it comes to this, the long and the short of it is, brevis esse laboro obscurus fio.
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