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Suetonius and Life
* Suetonius, De vita Casearum ( On the Life of the Caesars ) Augustus, Tiberius iii. 52. 3, 53 and Caligula iv. 23. 1
* Suetonius, The Lives of Twelve Caesars, Life of Caligula
* Life of Otho ( Suetonius ; English translation and Latin original )
* Life of Vitellius ( Suetonius ; English translation and Latin original )
A brief biographical note is found in Aelius Donatus's Life of Virgil, which seems to be derived from an earlier work by Suetonius.
Upon hearing of the defeat, the Emperor Augustus, according to the Roman historian Suetonius in his work De vita Caesarum (" On the Life of the Caesars "), was so shaken by the news that he stood butting his head against the walls of his palace, repeatedly shouting:
* Suetonius, The Lives of Twelve Caesars, Life of Titus, Latin text with English translation
* Suetonius: The Life of Augustus
* Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, Part XI: Life of Titus.
* Suetonius, The Lives of Twelve Caesars, Life of Tiberius, Latin text with English translation
* Suetonius, The Lives of Twelve Caesars, the Life of Nero, 38 ( c. 121 )
Suetonius in Chapter 68 of his Life of Augustus writes that Lucius Antonius, the brother of Mark Antony accused the Emperor Augustus for having " given himself to Aulus Hirtius in Spain for three hundred thousand sesterces.
Their salutation is a well-known Latin phrase quoted in Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum (" The Life of the Caesars ", or " The Twelve Caesars ").
* Suetonius, Life of Julius Caesar, 50.
* Suetonius, The Lives of Twelve Caesars, Life of Domitian, Latin text with English translation
* Suetonius, Lives of Caesars Life of Nero 35, Life of Otho 3
* His Life of Virgil is thought to be based on a lost Vita by Suetonius, together with the preface and introduction of his commentary on Virgil's works.
In Suetonius ' Life of Nero, we read that the emperor Nero's grandfather, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, whose wife was Antonia Major, daughter of Mark Antony, " was haughty, extravagant, and cruel, and when he was only an aedile, forced the censor Lucius Plancus to make way for him on the street ": the story seems to hint at the poor reputation Plancus held after his censorship.
" All the main characters, with the sole exception of Claudius's servant Lesbus, are historical, and the broad outline of the libretto draws heavily upon Tacitus's Annals and Suetonius ' Life of Claudius.
* < cite id = refSuetonius > Suetonius, Life of Caligula </ cite >
* Life of Caligula by Suetonius
Suetonius ( LXIII, Life of Augustus ) says Marcus Antonius wrote that Augustus betrothed his daughter Julia to marry Cotiso ( M. Antonius scribit primum eum Antonio filio suo despondisse Iuliam, dein Cotisoni Getarum regi ) to create an alliance between the two men.
* Suetonius, Life of Caligula 26 ( Text ).

Suetonius and Julius
According to Suetonius who had cited from Pliny the Elder, Agrippina had borne to Germanicus, a son called Gaius Julius Caesar who had a lovable character.
Suetonius records that Caligula's death was similar to that of Julius Caesar.
In this tradition Julius Caesar is sometimes described as the first Caesar / emperor ( following Suetonius ).
His contemporary Suetonius wrote biographies of the 12 Roman rulers from Julius Caesar through Domitian.
* Gnaeus Julius Agricola, age 18-year old, is serving as a military tribune in Britain under Gaius Suetonius Paulinus and is attached to Legio II Augusta.
Alternatively, Suetonius claims that Julius Caesar and Marcus Licinius Crassus directed the conspiracy, but he fails to mention Catiline's involvement.
The Caesar cipher is named after Julius Caesar, who, according to Suetonius, used it with a shift of three to protect messages of military significance.
The most important sources for French tragic theatre in the Renaissance were the example of Seneca and the precepts of Horace and Aristotle ( and contemporary commentaries by Julius Caesar Scaliger and Lodovico Castelvetro ), although plots were taken from classical authors such as Plutarch, Suetonius, etc., from the Bible, from contemporary events and from short story collections ( Italian, French and Spanish ).
Plutarch, Cassius Dio and Suetonius state that Octavian killed Antony ’ s son Marcus Antonius Antyllus and Cleopatra's son with Julius Caesar, Caesarion.
Three Roman rulers considered the idea but all suffered violent deaths ; the historian Suetonius tells us that the Roman dictator Julius Caesar considered digging a canal through the isthmus but was assassinated before he could commence the project.
For instance, regarding Julius Caesar and his assassins, Suetonius wrote:
In this sense Suetonius wrote of The Twelve Caesars, meaning the emperors from Julius Caesar to the Flavians included ( where, after Nero, the inherited name had turned into a title ), and emperors adopted themselves into an Imperial lineage.
* Suetonius, Julius Caesar 50
* Sextus Julius Gabinianus, a celebrated rhetorician who taught in Gaul during the time of Vespasian, and was spoken of by Suetonius in de Claris Rhetoribus.
Roman generals Septimus Flaccus in 19 BCE and Suetonius Paulinus in 50 CE led military expeditions into Sub-Saharan Africa, and Roman explorer Julius Maternus traveled there in early 1st century CE.
The 2nd century writer Apuleius claimed that Catullus gave his lover Clodia the pseudonym Lesbia ; Wiseman traces Apuleius ’ s source for this claim to the historian Suetonius, and Suetonius ’ sources to C. Julius Hyginus ’ s De Vita Rebusque Illustrium Virorum.
According to Suetonius, Valerius Maximus, Appian and Dio Cassius, at Julius Caesar's funeral in 44 BC, a certain Helvius Cinna was killed because he was mistaken for Cornelius Cinna, the conspirator.
In 1508 Ringmann made the first translation of Julius Caesar's Commentaries into German with supplemental lives by Suetonius, Plutarch, and others.
Apuleius ' information is thought to have come from Suetonius ' de poetis, or Suetonius ' most important source, a work on late Republican and Augustan period poets by Gaius Julius Hyginus.
According to Suetonius, Pinarius was a great nephew of dictator Gaius Julius Caesar through one his sisters ( sororum nepotes ).
* Many famous generals had renowned mounts, including Julius Caesar's legendary horse with " toes " described by Suetonius, the Duke of Wellington's famed charger Copenhagen, Napoleon Bonaparte's Marengo, Alexander the Great's horse Bucephalus, and Robert E. Lee's horse Traveller.

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