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Suetonius and Lives
Mark Antony later charged that Octavian had earned his adoption by Caesar through sexual favours, though Suetonius, in his work Lives of the Twelve Caesars, describes Antony's accusation as political slander.
According to Suetonius in his De vita Caesarum ( The Lives of the Twelve Caesars ), written in the first century CE, the emperor Augustus sometimes presented old and exotic coins to friends and courtiers during festivals and other special occasions.
* Suetonius, The Lives of Twelve Caesars, Life of Caligula
In his biography in the Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Suetonius attests to Domitian's ability to quote the important poets and writers such as Homer or Virgil on appropriate occasions, and describes him as a learned and educated adolescent, with elegant conversation.
Einhard's literary model was the classical work of the Roman historian Suetonius, the Lives of the Caesars, though it is important to stress that the work is very much Einhard's own, that is to say he adapts the models and sources for his own purposes.
* Suetonius, The Lives of the twelve Caesars http :// www. fordham. edu / halsall / ancient / suetonius-index. html
Suetonius, in The Lives of the Caesars, comments on Otho's appearance and personal hygiene.
Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars
Suetonius Tranquilius gives a short but highly favourable account on Titus's reign in The Lives of Twelve Caesars, emphasizing his military achievements and his generosity as Emperor, in short describing him as follows:
* Suetonius, The Lives of Twelve Caesars, Life of Titus, Latin text with English translation
* Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars: " Caesar ".
* Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars: Vespasian 3, 21 ; Domitian 12. 3
Some suggested that Augustus may have ordered the execution, while others place the blame on either Tiberius or Livia ( with or possibly without Tiberius's knowledge ) ( Suetonius, Lives, Tiberius 22 ), taking advantage of the confusing initial political situation upon Augustus ' death.
* Suetonius, The Lives of Twelve Caesars, Life of Tiberius, Latin text with English translation
Graves's interpretation of the story owes much to the histories of Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, Plutarch, and ( especially ) Suetonius ( Lives of the Twelve Caesars ).
* The Twelve Caesars, Suetonius, translated by Robert Graves, 1957, Penguin Books ; Also available from Project Gutenberg: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete
* Suetonius, The Lives of Twelve Caesars, the Life of Nero, 38 ( c. 121 )
* The Twelve Caesars, Suetonius, available from Project Gutenberg: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete
" Other works of Guevara are the Decada de los Césares ( Valladolid, 1539 ), or " Lives of the Ten Roman Emperors ," in imitation of the manner of Plutarch and Suetonius ; and the Epistolas familiares ( Valladolid, 1539 – 1545 ), sometimes called " The Golden Letters ," often printed in Spain, and translated into all the principal languages of Europe.
* The rumor that Vespasian fell asleep during a song sung by Nero is recorded by Suetonius in the Lives of the Twelve Caesars.
* Suetonius, Lives of the 12 Caesars, trans.
* Suetonius: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
* Suetonius, The Lives of Twelve Caesars, Life of Domitian, Latin text with English translation
Scholars generally agree that this expulsion from Rome is likely the same as that reported by Suetonius in Claudius 25 in his Lives of the Twelve Caesars further confirming the consistency of the Pauline-based chronology.
A 1540 copy of The Twelve Caesars | Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius

Suetonius and Caesars
* Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars
* Suetonius, De vita Casearum ( On the Life of the Caesars ) Augustus, Tiberius iii. 52. 3, 53 and Caligula iv. 23. 1
* Caesar ( as, for example, in Suetonius ' Twelve Caesars ).
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:
According to Suetonius in The Twelve Caesars, the emperor Tiberius liked to annoy scholars with obscure questions, and one of his favorites was " Who was Hecuba's mother?
* Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, Part XI: Life of Titus.
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 and Life
* 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.
* Suetonius: The Life of Augustus
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, Life of Julius Caesar
* 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 ).

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