Question $5$

$1$ pts

In AD $19,$ the presumedtheir to the Emperor Tiberius, Germanicus, was 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?

they are equally and objectively reliable

the epigraphic source

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

the literary source