Some of the lost works of Suetonius ' " illustrious people " and Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium are a mixture of women and men, where others like Petrarch's De Viris Illustribus and Jerome's De Viris Illustribus are biographies of exclusively men.

Suetonius took a stand at an unidentified location, probably in the West Midlands somewhere along the Roman road now known as Watling Street, in a defile with a wood behind him — but his men were heavily outnumbered.

Suetonius claims that Caligula was already cruel and vicious: he writes that, when Tiberius brought Caligula to Capri, his purpose was to allow Caligula to live in order that he "... prove the ruin of himself and of all men, and that he was rearing a viper for the Roman People and a Phaëton for the world.

Nonetheless, Suetonius was able to assemble a force of about ten thousand men.

He and Publius Marius Celsus defeated Aulus Caecina Alienus, one of Vitellius's generals, near Cremona, but Suetonius would not allow his men to follow up their advantage and was accused of treachery as a result.

Suetonius claims that Caligula issued a proclamation the next day that he had acquired a new wife in the tradition of Romulus and Augustus, who had both stolen wives from other men.

Gibbon based this on Suetonius ' factual statement that " He had a great passion for women, but had no interest in men.

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, De vita Casearum ( On the Life of the Caesars ) Augustus, Tiberius iii. 52. 3, 53 and Caligula iv. 23. 1

* Suetonius, De vita Caesarum – Claudius v. 44 and Nero vi. 5. 3, 28. 2, 34. 1 – 4

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.

Important also is De viris illustribus, written at Bethlehem in 392, the title and arrangement of which are borrowed from 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, De vita Caesarum Iul i. 35. 52, ii. 17.

* A response to Cicero's De re publica, comprising six books, which later induced Suetonius to write a counter-response

He was by Augustus elected superintendent of the Palatine library according to Suetonius ' De Grammaticis, 20.

From Suetonius ( De grammaticis, 23 ) we learn that he was originally a slave who obtained his freedom and taught grammar at Rome.

He died at an advanced age during the reign of Tiberius ( Suetonius, De Grammaticis, 17 ), and a statue in his honour was erected at Praeneste, in a marble recess, with inscriptions from his Fasti.

Their salutation is a well-known Latin phrase quoted in Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum (" The Life of the Caesars ", or " The Twelve Caesars ").

* Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum, II, 14-5.

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.

Roman historian Suetonius has a passage in his De Vita Caesarum which inconclusively states that Roman emperor Tiberius took great pleasure from forcing women, even those of rank, to perform fellatio.

The earliest reference to him is perhaps in Suetonius ( De grammaticis, 3 ), though it is not certain that the " Laevius Milissus " there referred to is the same person.

* Suetonius, De grammaticis, 2

Concluding that he did not have the numbers to defend the settlement, Suetonius evacuated and abandoned it — Londinium was burnt to the ground, as was Verulamium ( St Albans ).

According to Suetonius, he was the first Roman Emperor who had demanded to be addressed as dominus et deus ( master and god ).

The most extensive account of the life of Domitian to survive was written by the historian Suetonius, who was born during the reign of Vespasian, and published his works under Emperor Hadrian ( 117 – 138 ).

* Caesar ( as, for example, in Suetonius ' Twelve Caesars ).

In this tradition Julius Caesar is sometimes described as the first Caesar / emperor ( following Suetonius ).

Nero's father had been employed as a praetor and was a member of Caligula's staff when the latter traveled to the East ( some apparently think Suetonius refers to Augustus ' adopted son Gaius Caesar here, but this is not likely ).

Otho soon realized that it was much easier to overthrow an Emperor than rule as one: according to Suetonius Otho once remarked that " Playing the Long Pipes is hardly my trade " ( i. e. undertaking something beyond one's ability to do so ).

* Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, governor of Britannia, leads a campaign on the island of Mona ( Anglesey ).

* The Druidic stronghold of Anglesey in north Wales is attacked and destroyed by Suetonius Paulinus ( Tacitus, Annals xiv 30 ).

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 ).

Graves's interpretation of the story owes much to the histories of Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, Plutarch, and ( especially ) Suetonius ( Lives of the Twelve Caesars ).

According to Suetonius, the canal was dug to a distance of four stades ( approximately, in other words about a tenth of the total distance across the isthmus ).

Suetonius later coined the term " half-Greek " of Livius and Ennius ( referring to their genre, not their ethnic backgrounds ).

Modern historians, though, keep in mind Suetonius, Tacitus and Cassius Dio's severe bias against Nero and the impossibility of them knowing private events, and hence recognize that Poppaea may have simply died due to fatal miscarriage complications or in childbirth ( in which case the second child also did not survive ).

Balbus kept a diary of the chief events in his own and Caesar's life ( Ephemeris ), which has been lost ( Suetonius, Caesar, 81 ).

During the reign of Augustus it was partly replaced ( Suetonius, Augustus, 43, 1 ) by the nemus Cæsarum ( sacred forest of the Caesars ), later renamed " forest of Gaius and Lucius " ( Dion Cassius, 66, 25, 3 ).

Suetonius, ' Deified Claudius ' 44 ).

Theodorus of Gadara was his teacher of rhetoric and, in all his wisdom, seems to have been the first to have understood Tiberius and to have capped him with a very pithy saying when he taunted Tiberius, calling him ' Mud kneaded with blood '... ( Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars ).

The trick serves to demonstrate their powers ( Virgil Eclogues 8. 69 ), to perform a love spell ( Suetonius Tiberius 1. 8. 21 ) or to extract a magical juice from the moon ( Apuleius Metamorphoses 1. 3. 1 ).

In political life Gallus espoused the cause of Octavian, and as a reward for his services was made prefect of Egypt ( Suetonius, Augustus, 66 ).

According to Suetonius, Pinarius was a great nephew of dictator Gaius Julius Caesar through one his sisters ( sororum nepotes ).

The keeping of them was continued by Augustus, but their publication was forbidden ( Suetonius, Augustus, 36 ).

The Roman historian Suetonius reports that when Vespasian's son Titus complained about the disgusting nature of the tax, his father held up a gold coin and asked whether he felt offended by its smell ( sciscitans num odore offenderetur ).

* Suetonius, Life of Caligula 26 ( Text ).