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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.
* Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars
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.
* Caesar ( as, for example, in Suetonius ' Twelve Caesars ).
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
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, Lives of the Twelve Caesars: Vespasian 3, 21 ; Domitian 12. 3
* Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, Part XI: Life of Titus.
* 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 ).
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.
* 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
* The rumor that Vespasian fell asleep during a song sung by Nero is recorded by Suetonius in the Lives of the Twelve Caesars.
* Suetonius: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
Their salutation is a well-known Latin phrase quoted in Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum (" The Life of the Caesars ", or " The Twelve Caesars ").
* Suetonius, The Lives of Twelve Caesars, Life of Domitian, Latin text with English translation
Suetonius and Caesars
* Suetonius, De vita Casearum ( On the Life of the Caesars ) Augustus, Tiberius iii. 52. 3, 53 and Caligula iv. 23. 1
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.
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, Lives of the Caesars: " Caesar ".
Suetonius and Claudius
* Suetonius, De vita Caesarum – Claudius v. 44 and Nero vi. 5. 3, 28. 2, 34. 1 – 4
Suetonius states that a total of 35 senators and 300 knights were executed for offenses during Claudius ' reign.
According to Suetonius, Claudius was extraordinarily fond of games.
Suetonius and the other ancient authors used this against Claudius.
The historian Suetonius describes the physical manifestations of Claudius ' affliction in relatively good detail.
The Stoic Seneca states in his Apocolocyntosis that Claudius ' voice belonged to no land animal, and that his hands were weak as well ; however, he showed no physical deformity, as Suetonius notes that when calm and seated he was a tall, well-built figure of dignitas.
Since Claudius ( like most of the members of his dynasty ) heavily criticized his predecessors and relatives in surviving speeches, it is not hard to imagine the nature of Suetonius ' charge.
Suetonius quotes Claudius ' autobiography once, and must have used it as a source numerous times.
Suetonius painted Claudius as a ridiculous figure, belittling many of his acts and attributing the objectively good works to his retinue.
: Suetonius wrote "... for even if he was not the instigator of the emperor's death, he was at least privy to it, as he openly admitted ; for he used afterwards to laud mushrooms, the vehicle in which the poison was administered to Claudius, as " the food of the gods ," as the Greek proverb has it.
What little is known of Titus's early life has been handed down to us by Suetonius, who records that he was brought up at the imperial court in the company of Britannicus, the son of emperor Claudius, who would be murdered by Nero in 55.
According to Suetonius, Claudius divorced her in 24 on grounds of adultery by Plautia and his suspicions of her involvement in the murder of her sister-in-law Apronia.
According to Suetonius, he was born with the praenomen Decimus, but it was later changed to Nero-an unusual example of using a second cognomen as a praenomen rather than an agnomen: " Nero " was a traditional cognomen of the Claudius family, whereas " Drusus " originally belonged to the Livius dynasty.
* " increase in the number of Greek words in ordinary use " ( Claudius Suetonius refers to " both our languages ", Latin and Greek )
Graves claimed that after he read Suetonius, Claudius came to him in a dream one night and demanded that his real story be told.
Claudius arrived with reinforcements, including artillery and elephants, but as Suetonius and Claudius ' triumphal arch state, the British kings surrendered without further bloodshed.
This theory is supported by Suetonius, who writes that Claudius came ex Regillis oppido Sabinorum ; that is, " from Regillum, a town of the Sabines.
" This appears to conflict with the tradition that Claudius was a native of Cures, and may simply be speculation on the part of Suetonius, but there is nothing inherently improbable about this theory.
According to Suetonius, Claudius divorced Paetina for slight offenses.
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.
In Claudius 25 Suetonius refers to the expulsion of Jews by Claudius and states:
Just as Graves ' Claudius books ( I, Claudius and Claudius the God and his Wife Messalina ) were based upon, for example, The Twelve Caesars of Suetonius, Count Belisarius is largely based on Procopius's History of Justinian's Wars and Secret History.
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