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Upon the whole, he added nothing to his own happiness by all the dangers, the fatigues, and the perpetual anxiety which he had incurred in the pursuit of unlimited power, " - Suetonius on Julius Caesar."Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system, " Suetonius.The Twelve Caesars-Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Oth...

Excerpt from C. Suetoni Tranquilli Quae Supersunt OmniaC. Suetonius Tranquillus quo Oppido, quo quo anno natus sit, nec ipse in 118 quidem libris qui ae tatem tulerunt tradidit, neque apud alios scriptores me moriae proditum repetio. Ad Cisalpinam Gallium referen dum existinht Vossius de bist. Lat. 31 argumento baud ita firmo usus, quod familiaris fuerit Plinn hominis Trans padani. Ipse commemorat patrem Suetonium Lae tum nomine et legioni's X...

Suetonius' examination of the Roman emperor Vespasian

An analysis of Suetonius' account of the emperor Domitian

Suetonius, chronicler of the extraordinary personalities of the first dynasties to rule the Roman Empire, was the greatest Latin biographer. His colourful work, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, is, along with Tacitus, the major source for the period from Julius Caesar to Domitian. He sets out in vivid detail a great range of aspects illuminating the emperor's characters, their habits, from table to bedchamber - their intrigues, their loves and the...

Excerpt from History of Twelve Caesars, Vol. 2: Translated Into English by Philemon Holland, Anno 1606, With an Introd, by Charles Whibley But, as the opinion of the world went, his death contrived by the wicked plot of Tiberius, was effected by the ministerie and helpe of Cn. Piso: who about the same time being President of Syria, and not dissimuling that hee was to offend either father or sonne (as if there were no other remedie but needes ...

Excerpt from Opera Ut conjicere licet ex ipsius verbis, in Ner. LVII denìque, quum post viginti annos (scilic. A morte Neronis) adolescente me exstitisset conditionis incertae, qui se Neronem esse jactaret, etc. N Mortem sibi conscivit Nero, anno 819 post Romam conditam. Ille igitur pseudo-nero, cujus memìnit Noster, exstitit anno 839. Quum vero tunc temporis Suetonius esset jam adolescens, liquet cum fuisse matum circa initia Vespasiani, qui...

Memoirs rather than history, lives rather than events, includes Lives of the Poets, Grammarians and Historians

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Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c70-c140), also known as Suetonius, was a prominent Roman historian and biographer. He is mainly remembered as the author of De Vita Caesarum (Lives of the Caesars, best known in English as The Twelve Caesars), his only extant work. The Twelve Caesars, probably written in Hadrian's time, is a collective biography of the Roman Empire's first leaders who were: Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Ne...

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This volume contains "The Lives of Illustrius Men" and Books V-VIII or "The Lives of the Caesars.

This volume contains "The Lives of Illustrius Men" and Books V-VIII or "The Lives of the Caesars.