The wild circumstances that led to Country House winning the Kentucky Derby via disqualification overshadowed the impressive efforts of trainer Bill Mott's other horse in that race. No. 10 TACITUS ...

Multiple graded stakes winner Tacitus , an earner of more than $3.7 million and a son of three-time leading North American sire Tapit out of champion older female and five-time grade 1 winner Close ...

Two weeks after skipping the Preakness Stakes, Tacitus enters the Belmont Stakes as the bookmakers' favorite. The Juddmonte Farms' horse has not raced since the Kentucky Derby, when he finished fourth ...

NEW YORK -- Tacitus was well rested for a run on his home track. It just didn't work out. The favored Tacitus finished second to Sir Winston in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday. The 3-year-old colt, who ...

Elizabeth I is better known for her high necklines and defeat of the Spanish Armada than as an avid intellectual, but an article published in the Review of English Studies adds a new translation to ...

Perhaps the most fateful decision in all of European history was made by Augustus Caesar, when he chose to fix the border of the Roman Empire at the Rhine. As a result, the region known to the Romans ...

Caillan Davenport receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Sometime in the 9th century AD, a monk in the Benedictine monastery of Fulda in modern Germany copied out an extensive Latin ...

“To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those princes who understood their own interest and that of the people, it may be ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Late in the sixteenth century the Tacitist movement reached England, and Tacitus gradually became an intellectual rallying point with ...

Reporting from Elmont, N.Y. — The mystique that surrounds the Belmont Stakes goes far beyond its 1 1/2-mile distance, perhaps the only time in a horse’s career it will be asked to run that far on dirt ...