Intrecci tra storiografia e retorica in Tacito Agr. 30,1.

The beginning of Calgacus’ speech delivered in Tacitus’ Agricola (30, 1) shows the extraordinary skill with which the historian, thanks to the couple hodiernus dies / initium libertatis, shapes a testeful crossing between rhetoric and historiography in which, together with the historiographical models, there is a notable incidence of Cicero. Moreover, those words of Calgacus seem to be inspired by the tradition of the Latin political and ideological lexicon of Greek origin; in this particular case, a possible starting model could be a passage from Xenophon’s Hellenica.