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  1. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 10: Vespasian by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, 2010-07-06
  2. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 03: Tiberius by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, 2010-07-06
  3. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 09: Vitellius by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, 2010-07-06
  4. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 14: Lives of the Poets by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, 2010-07-06
  5. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 07: Galba by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, 2010-07-06
  6. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 05: Claudius by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, 2010-07-06
  7. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: Caligula by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, 2010-07-06
  8. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, 2010-07-06
  9. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 12: Domitian by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, 2010-07-06
  10. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, 2009-04-30
  11. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, 2010-07-06
  12. The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics) by Suetonius, 2007-12-18
  13. Lives of the Caesars (Oxford World's Classics) by Suetonius, 2009-06-15
  14. Suetonius, Vol. 1: The Lives of the Caesars--Julius. Augustus. Tiberius. Gaius. Caligula (Loeb Classical Library, No. 31) by Suetonius, 1914-01-01

1. Suetonius - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Gaius suetonius Tranquillus (ca. 69/75 after 130), also known as suetonius, was a prominent Roman historian and biographer.
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Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (ca. - after ), also known as Suetonius , was a prominent Roman historian and biographer.
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    Suetonius was born the son of Suetonius Laetus, who probably came from Hippo Regius Annaba Algeria ). Laetus was an equestrian who served and took part in the first Battle of Bedriacum for the Emperor Otho and against the future Emperor Vitellius in Suetonius was a close friend to Senator and letter-writer Pliny the Younger . Pliny describes him as "quiet and studious, a man dedicated to writing." Pliny helped him buy a small property in Italy and interceded with the Emperor Trajan to grant Suetonius immunities usually granted to a father of three, the ius trium liberorum , because his marriage was childless. Through Pliny, Suetonius came into favour with Trajan and Hadrian Suetonius served on Pliny’s staff when Pliny was Proconsul of Bithynia Pontus (northern Asia Minor ) between and . Under Trajan he served as secretary of studies (precise functions are uncertain) and director of Imperial archives. Under Hadrian, he became the Emperor's secretary.

2. C. Suetonius Tranquillus
Gaius suetonius Tranquillus (c.71c.135) Roman scholar and official, best-known as the author of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars.
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Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus was born in the province of Africa, in Hippo Regius, near modern 'Annaba in northeast Algeria. His father Suetonius Laetus was a rich man and belonged to the equestrian order, the second rank of the Roman elite (after the senators ). In 69, the year of the civil war that is known as the 'year of the four emperors', Laetus was serving as a military tribune in the thirteenth legion Gemina . The author of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars tells this in his Life of Otho , and adds that his father had been present when Otho decided to commit suicide after his army had been defeated at Cremona by the legions of his rival Vitellius Examples
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suetonius also makes mention of Nero s persecution in 16.2 Punishment by Nero was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and
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In The Life of Claudius 25.4, we find the statement, "As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he expelled them from Rome."

4. LacusCurtius • Suetonius' Twelve Caesars
English entry page to the complete Latin text and an English translation of the work, in turn part of a large site containing many Greek and Latin texts and
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The Latin text is that of Maximilian Ihm in the Teubner edition of 1907, with cosmetic changes as printed in the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1913‑1914. The English translation is by J. C. Rolfe, printed in the same edition. Both text and translation are in the public domain. As usual, I retyped the text rather than scanning it: not only to minimize errors prior to proofing, but as an opportunity for me to become intimately familiar with the work, an exercise which I heartily recommend. (Well-meaning attempts to get me to scan text, if successful, would merely turn me into some kind of machine: gambit declined.) In the table of contents below, all the Books are shown on blue backgrounds red backgrounds would indicate that my transcription was still not proofread. The header bar at the top of each webpage will remind you with the same color scheme. Should you spot an error, please do report it, of course. Further details on the technical aspects of the site layout follow the Table of Contents. Background material on Suetonius, the Lives of the Twelve Caesars, the manuscripts, etc. will appear here in the fullness of time, but as usual I'm not about to let that delay anything, preferring to get a good text online first.

5. Suetonius --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia
Britannica online encyclopedia article on suetonius Roman biographer and antiquarian whose writings include De viris illustribus (Concerning Illustrious
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suetonius Historian to Roman Emperor Hadrian, he recorded biblical events. Other sources include Mara Bar-Serapion and Lucian of Samosata.
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Suetonius was a secretary and historian to Hadrian, Emperor of Rome from 117 to 138 AD. Regarding Emperor Claudius (41-54 AD) and the Riot of Rome in 49 AD, Suetonius wrote:
    As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus [Christ], he [Claudius] expelled them from Rome.
Interestingly, Acts 18:2 relates that Paul met Aquila and his wife Priscilla just after they left Italy because Claudius had expelled them.
Later, Suetonius wrote about the great fire of Rome in 64 AD:
    Punishment by Nero was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.
Mara Bar-Serapion , a stoic philosopher from Syria, wrote this letter to his son from prison sometime after 70 AD:
    What advantage did the Athenians gain from putting Socrates to death? Famine and plague came upon them as a judgment for their crime. What advantage did the men of Samos gain from burning Pythagoras? In a moment their land was covered with sand. What advantage did the Jews gain from their executing their wise king? It was just after that that their kingdom was abolished. God justly avenged these three wise men: The Athenians died of hunger; the Samians were overwhelmed by the sea; the Jews, ruined and driven from their land, live in complete dispersion. But Socrates did not die for good; he lived on in the statue of Plato. Pythagoras did not die for good; he lived on in the statue of Hera. Nor did the wise king die for good; he lived on in the teaching which he had given.

7. Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius  (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum, D
English translation by Rolfe of Divus Iulius, part of De Vita Caesarum by suetonius.
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I. II. He served his first campaign in Asia on the personal staff of Marcus Thermus, governor of the province [81 BC]. Being sent by Thermus to Bithynia, to fetch a fleet, he dawdled so long at the court of Nicomedes that he was suspected of improper relations with the king; and he lent color to this scandal by going back to Bithynia a few days after his return, with the alleged purpose of collecting a debt for a freedman, one of his dependents. During the rest of the campaign he enjoyed a better reputation, and at the storming of Mytilene [80 BC] Thermus awarded him the civic crown [a chaplet of oak leaves, given for saving the life of a fellow-citizen, the highest military award of the Roman state]. III. He served too under Servilius Isauricus in Cilicia, but only for a short time; for learning of the death of Sulla, and at the same time hoping to profit by a counter-revolution which Marcus Lepidus was setting on foot, he hurriedly returned to Rome [78 BC]. But he did not make common cause with Lepidus, although he was offered highly favorable terms, through lack of confidence both in that leader's capacity and in the outlook, which he found less promising than he had expected. IV.

8. Suetonius
C. SVETONIVS TRANQVILLVS. (c. 69 – after 130). DE VITA CAESARUM. Divus Iulius Divus Augustus Tiberius Caligula Divus Claudius Nero Galba Otho
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As suetonius was the emperor Hadrian s private secretary (magister epistolarum), he must have had access to many important documents in the Imperial
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Executive summary: De Vita Caesarum Roman historian, lived during the end of the 1st and the first half of the 2nd century AD. He was the contemporary of Tacitus and the younger Pliny, and his literary work seems to have been chiefly done in the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian (AD 98-138). His father was military tribune in the XIIIth legion, and he himself began life as a teacher of rhetoric and an advocate. To us he is known as the biographer of the twelve Caesars (including Julius Caesar ) down to Domitian . The lives are valuable as covering a good deal of ground where we are without the guidance of Tacitus. As Suetonius was the emperor Hadrian's private secretary ( magister epistolarum The Lives of the Caesars has always been a popular work. It is rather a chronicle than a history. It gives no picture of the society of the time, no hints as to the general character and tendencies of the period. It is the emperor who is always before us, and yet the portrait is drawn without any real historical judgment or insight. It is the personal anecdotes, several of which are very amusing, that give the lives their chief interest; but the author panders rather too much to a taste for scandal and gossip. Nonetheless he throws considerable light on an important period, and next to Tacitus and Dio Cassius is the chief (sometimes the only) authority. The language is clear and simple. The work was continued by Marius Maximus (3rd century), who wrote a history of the emperors from Nerva to

10. Oxford World's Classics Magazine
suetonius, Lives of the Caesars (on which I, Claudius is partly based) shows suetonius presents us with shocking accounts of Caligula s plan to make his
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A certain politician's wallpaper, the extra-marital affairs of Ministers, the meaning of William Hague's baseball cap: articles of this ilk seem to take up column feet each year, and biography sections of bookshops get bigger every year. If you thought that analysing the private lives of public figures was a modern phenomenon, think again. Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars (on which I, Claudius is partly based) shows that there were similar obsessions almost two millennia ago. Catharine Edwards, translator of the Oxford World's Classics edition published this autumn, reports: Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars , starting with Julius Caesar and ending with the emperor Domitian, has always had its place as a fund of extraordinary tales of imperial vice - and, at times, of models of imperial virtue. Suetonius presents us with shocking accounts of Caligula's plan to make his horse consul and of Nero singing while Rome burned, as well as with edifying descriptions of Augustus' splendid redevelopment of the city of Rome and Titus' decision to put the state before his love for Berenice. Centuries later rulers might aspire to being hailed as another Augustus or Titus - and dread being labelled another Caligula or Nero.

11. Classics 219: The Roman Empire: Suetonius, Claudius
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, C. Tranquillus suetonius, The Translation of Alexander Thomson, R. Worthington, New York (1883). • Ch 10 • Ch 20 • Ch 30
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Tiberius Claudius Drusus Caesar (The Life of Claudius)
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars , C. Tranquillus Suetonius, The Translation of Alexander Thomson, R. Worthington, New York (1883)
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Ch 20 Ch 30 1. Livia having married Augustus when she was pregnant was, within three months afterwards, delivered of Drusus, the father of Claudius Caesar, who had at first the praenomen of Decimus, but afterwards that of Nero; and it was suspected that he was begotten in adultery by his step-father [Augustus]. The following verse, however, was immediately in every one's mouth:
Nine months for common births the fates decree;
But, for the great, reduce the term to three. This Drusus, during the time of his being quaestor and praetor, commanded in the Rhaetian and German wars, and was the first of all the Roman generals who navigated the Northern Ocean. He made likewise some prodigious canals beyond the Rhine, which to this day are called by his name. He overthrew the enemy in several battles and drove them far back into the depths of the desert. Nor did he desist from pursuing them, until an apparition, in the form of a barbarian woman, of more than human size, appeared to him, and, in the Latin tongue, forbade him to proceed any further. For these achievements he had the honour of an ovation and the triumphal ornaments. After his praetorship, he immediately entered on the office of consul, and returning to Germany, died of disease, in the summer encampment, which thence obtained the name of

12. Emblematic Scenes In Suetonius' Vitellius
John Burke offers this paper which examines Seutonius biography of the emperor Vitellius.
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Emblematic Scenes in Suetonius' Vitellius
John W. Burke (Kent State University)
... religatis post terga manibus, iniecto ceruicibus laqueo, ueste discissa seminudus in forum tractus est inter magna rerum uerborumque ludibria per totum uiae Sacrae spatium, reducto coma capite, ceu noxii solent, atque etiam mento mucrone gladii subrecto, ut uisendam praeberet faciem neue summitteret; quibusdam stercore et caeno incessentibus, aliis incendiarium et patinarium uociferantibus, parte uulgi etiam corporis uitia exprobrante; erat enim in eo enormis proceritas, facies rubida plerumque ex uinulentia, uenter obesus, alterum femur subdebile impulsu olim quadrigae, cum auriganti Gaio ministratorem exhiberet. tandem apud Gemonias minutissimis ictibus excarnificatus atque confectus est et inde unco tractus in Tiberim. ( Vit Suetonius' biography of Vitellius, a brief, but systematic, attack on that emperor's character and principate, culminates in the lurid scene quoted above, in which Vitellius is executed. Why should Suetonius have represented Vitellius, who reigned for so short a time, in such harshly negative terms? Partly, no doubt, because the basic tradition about Vitellius was established during the era of the Flavians, by whom, of course, he had been overthrown. The ancient source who most nearly approaches the almost uniformly negative picture provided by Suetonius is Flavius Josephus, and, at least in his case, for obvious reasons. But while the portrait offered by our other principal sources, Tacitus and Dio, is indeed decidedly unflattering and hostile, being largely based upon the same source-material as Suetonius', it is not without some attempt at equity (e.g. Tac.

13. BBC - History - Suetonius (?)
suetonius was the Roman governor of Britain who defeated Boudicca s rebellion.
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Suetonius was the Roman governor of Britain who defeated Boudicca's rebellion Little is known of Gaius Suetonius Paulinus's early life. The earliest record of his career dates from 42 AD, during the reign of the Emperor Claudius, when he suppressed a revolt in Mauretania (north Africa) and became the first Roman to cross the Atlas mountains. In 58 AD, he was appointed governor of Britain, by which time the area south-east of a line between the Wash and the Severn estuary was under Roman domination. Beyond that, the situation was more unstable. Suetonius engaged in war against the Ordovices in Wales, and was attacking the Druids in Anglesey at the start of the campaign season of 61 AD. Here he was victorious, but, far to the south-east, in the rich, settled region around the capital, Camulodunum (Colchester), rebellion erupted. The uprising endangered not only the province but also Paulinus's career.

14. C. Suetonius Tranquillus, De Vita Caesarum (ed. Maximilian Ihm)
C. suetonius Tranquillus, De Vita Caesarum (ed. Maximilian Ihm). Editions and translations Latin (ed. Maximilian Ihm) English (ed. Alexander Thomson)
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15. Suetonius, Life Of Augustus, Outline
Life of Agustus according to suetonius, but in outline form.
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Suetonius,
Divus Augustus 1-4 AUGUSTUS' ANCESTRY
5-8 AUGUSTUS' BOYHOOD
  • 7: How he came to be called `Caesar Augustus'
9-19 THE CIVIL WARS
  • 10: Augustus and Antony: Mutina 11: Hirtius and Pansa: suspicion of foul play 12: 43 B.C.: Octavian abandons the Optimate faction 13: The Second Triumvirate: Philippi (42 B.C.) Proscriptions 14: 40 B.C.: Perusia (15: `Arae Perusinae') 16: 38-36 B.C.: Sicily: Sextius Pompeius and Lepidus Naulochus 17: 31 B.C. September 2: Battle of Actium 18: Antonius and Cleopatra 19: Conspiracies and rebellions.
20-25 AUGUSTUS' FOREIGN WARS AND MILITARY POLICY
  • 20: Wars Augustus fought in person 21: Wars fought by proxy (legati). Frontier policy. 22: Peace: The Temple of Janus 23: Triumphs and Disasters 24: Military Discipline 25: Slaves in the military: military rewards. Augustus' caution
26-28 AUGUSTUS AND THE CONSTITUTION: THE `PRINCIPATE'
  • 26: The consulships (31-23, 12, 5) 27: The triumvirate. Tribunicia potestas. Censorships. 28: Augustus and the Republic. The new regime.

16. Suetonius. Christ Myth Refuted. Did Jesus Exist? A Christian Response
Chrestus, as suetonius spells it, is the correct Latin form of a true Greek name, so that some would say that it does not refer to Jesus Christ.
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17. Suetonius And The Reign Of Tiberius: A Comparison With Other Sources
suetonius wrote a vivid account of Tiberius’ life in his Twelve Caesars. Tiberius’ personality, especially his duplicity, cruelty and dissimulation appear
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Suetonius and the reign of Tiberius: a comparison with other sources
Suetonius wrote a vivid account of Tiberius’ life in his Twelve Caesars. Tiberius’ personality, especially his duplicity, cruelty and dissimulation appear clearly in this writer’s biography of the second emperor. I would like to recount and analyze certain episodes in Suetonius’ biography of Tiberius and in the other authors’ accounts, particularly Tacitus’ and Dio Cassius’. I will then compare these and try to tie them in to the authors’ outlooks as historians and possible class relationships as a mode of explanation for the angle of each story.
First, I would like to talk briefly about each of the concerned writers and their sources, to give us a basis for what will follow. Four authors have chronicled Tiberius’ reign in some detail, one of them, Velleius Paterculus, while Tiberius was alive and ruling the Empire, the other three, Suetonius, Tacitus and Dio Cassius, later on in the history of Rome.
Velleius Paterculus was a military tribune under Augustus, a prefect of the horse, a legate, a quaestor and finally a praetor under Tiberius.[1] He is known as an admirer of Tiberius, whom he served under, and of Sejanus, and this can be seen in the text. Whether this positive outlook was due to genuine admiration, prudence or fear is another story. He died around 30 or 31, so we do not have his angle on the fall of Sejanus.[2]

18. Harvard University Press: The Lives Of The Caesars, I : Julius. Augustus. Tiberi
The Lives of the Caesars, I Julius. Augustus. Tiberius. Gaius. Caligula by suetonius, published by Harvard University Press.
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The Lives of the Caesars, I
Julius. Augustus. Tiberius. Gaius. Caligula
Suetonius
Translator J. C. Rolfe
Introduction by K. R. Bradley

19. Jeffrey St. Clair: Empire Of The Locusts
These days I ve taken to rereading suetonius, the droll muckraker of the suetonius unearthed a juicy trove of scandal from the lives of the Julian and
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20. SUETONIUS
suetonius. WWW.RomanBritain.ORG. Gaius suetonius Tranquillus. The Lives of the Caesars. REFERENCES TO BRITAIN AND THE CELTS
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Gaius Julius Caesar
Julius XXV He was the first Roman to build a bridge and attack the Germans beyond the Rhine ; and he inflicted heavy losses upon them. He invaded the Britons too, a people unknown before, vanquished them, and exacted moneys and hostages. Amid all these successes he met with adverse fortune but three times in all: in Britain, where his fleet narrowly escaped destruction in a violent storm ; in Gaul, when one of his legions was routed at Gergovia ; and on the borders of Germany, when his lieutenants Titurius and Aurunculeius were ambushed and slain. Julius XLVII They say that he was led to invade Britain by the hope of getting pearls, and that in comparing their size he sometimes weighed them with his own hand ; that he was always a most enthusiastic collector of gems, carvings, statues, and pictures by early artists ; also of slaves of exceptional figure and training at enormous prices, of which he himself was so ashamed that he forbade their entry in his accounts. Julius LVIII In the conduct of his campaigns it is a question whether he was more cautious or more daring, for he never led his army where ambuscades were possible without carefully reconnoitring the country, and he did not cross to Britain without making personal inquiries about the harbours, the course, and the approach to the island. But on the other hand, when news came that his camp in Germany was beleaguered, he made his way to his men through the enemies' pickets, disguised as a Gaul.

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