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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.
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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
* 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.
" 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 Nero
Additionally, Suetonius reveals that Poppaea's husband, Otho, was not sent away by Nero until after Agrippina's death in 59, making it highly unlikely that already married Poppaea would be pressing Nero.
According to Suetonius, Nero was annoyed at his mother being too watchful and tried three times to poison Agrippina, but she took the antidotes in time and survived.
* Suetonius, De vita Caesarum – Claudius v. 44 and Nero vi. 5. 3, 28. 2, 34. 1 – 4
The crisis caused the Emperor Nero to consider withdrawing all Roman forces from Britain, but Suetonius ' eventual victory over Boudica re-secured Roman control of the province.
Fearing Suetonius ' actions would provoke further rebellion, Nero replaced the governor with the more conciliatory Publius Petronius Turpilianus.
The historian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus tells us the crisis had almost persuaded Nero to abandon Britain.
It is impossible today to say who altered the letter e into an i. In Suetonius ’ Nero 16. 2, " christiani ", however, seems to be the original reading ".
According to Suetonius, Nero lost interest in Lucan and Lucan responded by writing insulting poems about Nero that Nero continued to ignore.
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, 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.
* Rubria, said by Suetonius to have been married to the Emperor Nero
In his notes to the Augustan History, Thayer notes that " Nero did this also ( Suetonius, Nero, xxxi ), and a similar ceiling in the house of Trimalchio is described in Petronius, Sat., lx.
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 claims this of Nero and the Domus Aurea:
Among Persius's satires were lines that, as Suetonius records, " even lashed Nero himself, who was then the reigning prince.
Suetonius and Cassius Dio favor Nero as the arsonist with an insane desire to destroy the city as his motive, or to rebuild Rome in a new style more to his liking.
* The rumor that Vespasian fell asleep during a song sung by Nero is recorded by Suetonius in the Lives of the Twelve Caesars.
In 58 the Roman XXth Legion crossed the Menai Strait to conquer Anglesey, commanded by the governor Suetonius Paulinus, who had been appointed by Emperor Nero to subdue Wales and its Druids.
Additionally, Suetonius mentions how Poppaea's husband, Otho, was not sent away until after Agrippina's death, which makes it very unlikely that an already married woman would be pressing Nero to marry her.
According to Suetonius, while she was awaiting the birth of her second child in the summer of 65, she quarreled fiercely with Nero over his spending too much time at the races.
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