Tacitean

adjective

Tac·​i·​te·​an ¦tasə¦tēən 

taˈsitē-

: of or relating to the historian Tacitus or resembling his style or writings (as in terseness or studied lack of parallelism)

his discourse … was couched on this occasion in Tacitean brevity

—Norman Douglas

Word History

Etymology

from Cornelius Tacitus †about a.d. 117 Roman statesman and historian + English -ean

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