Abstract
LITTLE could Ben Jonson have foreseen into what quandaries he would set generations yet unborn with line 31 of his superb tribute to the recently-deceased Shakespeare:1 And though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek. Students of Shakespeare have often noted passages in his plays which draw upon classical precedents, either in precise language or in mood, either from the original language or from a translation. The Roman historian Tacitus wrote a Latin very different from that of Cicero and Caesar, and much harder to read and understand. Tacitus’ Histories have been quarried as a source for a moving yet brutal scene in 3 Henry VI.3
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