La linguae continentia de Tácito: los Antoninos e Hispania

The purpose of this article is to elucidate the impersonal and ambiguous posture of Tacitus with regard to the Antonines and Hispania. The article, in the first instance, analyses the passages of the Agricola and the Histories where Tacitus presents the eulogies of the Antonines, as well as his unfulfilled promises to write the history of Nerva and Trajan, which are revealed as conventional expres…