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In AD $19,$ the presumed heir to the Emperor Tiberius, Germanicus, jwas poisoned to death by a man named Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso the Elder. The Roman historian Tacitus wrote a literary account in which he implicates Tiberius himself in the plot. The Roman Senate passed a decree against Piso, which survives as an inscription and relates the same events, holding only Piso responsible, and punishing him by confiscating his property $($Piso later killed himself$).$

Which source is the more reliable?

neither should be regarded as the more reliable, just as different accounts

the epigraphic source

the literary source

they are equally and objectively reliableQuestion $5$

$1$ pts

In AD $19,$ the presumed heir to the Emperor Tiberius, Germanicus, jwas poisoned to death by a man named Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso the Elder. The Roman historian Tacitus wrote a literary account in which he implicates Tiberius himself in the plot. The Roman Senate passed a decree against Piso, which survives as an inscription and relates the same events, holding only Piso responsible, and punishing him by confiscating his property $($Piso later killed himself$).$

Which source is the more reliable?

neither should be regarded as the more reliable, just as different accounts

the epigraphic source

the literary source

they are equally and objectively reliable