It is from a very different quarter that the translator of Tacitus waits for solid criticism. The men, as Pliny observes, who read with malignity, are not the only judges. _Neque enim soli judicant, qui malignè legunt._ The scholar will see defects, but he will pronounce with temper: he will know the difficulty, and, in some cases, perhaps the impossibility, of giving in our language the sentiments of Tacitus with the precision and energy of the original; and, upon the whole, he will acknowledge that an attempt to make a considerable addition to English literature, carries with it a plea of some merit. While the French could boast of having many valuable translations of Tacitus, and their most eminent authors were still exerting themselves, with emulation, to improve upon their predecessors, the present writer saw, with regret, that this country had not so much as one translation which could be read, without disgust, by any person acquainted with the idiom and structure of our language. To supply the deficiency has been the ambition of the translator. He persevered with ardour; but, his work being finished, ardour subsides, and doubt and anxiety take their turn. Whatever the event may be, the conscious pleasure of having employed his time in a fair endeavour will remain with him. For the rest, he submits his labours to the public; and, at that tribunal, neither flushed with hope, nor depressed by fear, he is prepared, with due acquiescence, to receive a decision, which, from his own experience on former occasions, he has reason to persuade himself will be founded in truth and candour. GEOGRAPHICAL TABLE: OR, INDEX OF THE NAMES OF PLACES, RIVERS, &c. MENTIONED IN THESE VOLUMES. A. ACHAIA, often taken for part of Peloponnesus, but in Tacitus generally for all Greece. ACTIUM, a promontory of Epirus, now called the _Cape of Tigolo_, famous for the victory of Augustus over M. Antony. ADDUA, a river rising in the country of the _Grisons_, and in its course separating Milan from the territory of the Venetians, till it falls into the Po, about six miles to the west of Cremona. It is now called the _Adda_. ADIABENE, a district of Assyria, so called from the river Adiaba; _Adiabeni_, the people. ADRANA, now the _Eder_; a river that flows near _Waldeck_, in the landgravate of _Hesse_, and discharges itself into the _Weser_. ADRIATIC, now the gulf of Venice. ADRUMETUM, a Phœnician colony in Africa, about seventeen miles from Leptis Minor. ÆDUI, a people of Ancient Gaul, near what is now called _Autun_, in Lower Burgundy. ÆGEÆ, a maritime town of Cilicia; now _Aias Kala_. ÆGEAN SEA, a part of the Mediterranean which lies between Greece and Asia Minor; now the _Archipelago_. ÆGIUM, a city of Greece, in the Peloponnesus; now the _Morea_. ÆNUS, a river rising in the country of the _Grisons_, and running thence into the Danube. ÆQUI, a people of Ancient Latium.