id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4603 Tacitus (emperor) - Wikipedia .html text/html 1886 330 59 He granted substantial prerogatives to the Senate, securing to them by law the appointment of the emperor, of the consuls, and the provincial governors, as well as supreme right of appeal from every court in the empire in its judicial function, and the direction of certain branches of the revenue in its long-abeyant administrative capacity.[11] Probus respected these changes, but after the reforms of Diocletian in the succeeding decades not a vestige would be left of them. On his way back to the west to deal with a Frankish and Alamannic invasion of Gaul, according to Aurelius Victor, Eutropius and the Historia Augusta, Tacitus died of fever at Tyana in Cappadocia in June 276.[13][14] It was reported that he began acting strangely, declaring that he would alter the names of the months to honor himself, before succumbing to a fever.[citation needed] In a contrary account, Zosimus claims he was assassinated, after appointing one of his relatives to an important command in Syria.[15] Southern, Pat. The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine, Routledge, 2001 ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4603.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4603.txt