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 ".

Plutarch, Cassius Dio and Suetonius state that Octavian killed Antony ’ s son Marcus Antonius Antyllus and Cleopatra's son with Julius Caesar, Caesarion.

There is a longstanding folklore belief that this battle took place at King ’ s Cross, simply because as a medieval village it was known as Battle Bridge ; Tacitus describes the site: " Suetonius chose a place with narrow jaws, backed by a forest " but does not mention the River Fleet, which flowed here.

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, Caligula nursed a rumor that Augustus and Julia the Elder had an incestuous union from which Agrippina the Elder had been born.

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

Suetonius writes that after the banishment of his mother and brothers, Caligula and his sisters were nothing more than prisoners of Tiberius under the close watch of soldiers.

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.

Tacitus writes that the Praetorian Prefect, Macro, smothered Tiberius with a pillow to hasten Caligula's accession, much to the joy of the Roman people, while Suetonius writes that Caligula may have carried out the killing, though this is not recorded by any other ancient historian.

She is said to have committed suicide, although Suetonius hints that Caligula actually poisoned her.

A brief famine of an unknown size occurred, perhaps caused by this financial crisis, but according to Suetonius a result of Caligula's seizure of public carriages, according to Seneca because grain imports were disturbed by Caligula using boats for a pontoon bridge.

Pliny claims that division was the work of Caligula, but Dio states that in 42 CE an uprising took place, which was subdued by Gaius Suetonius Paulinus and Gnaeus Hosidius Geta, only after which the division took place.

Suetonius sees the motive in Caligula calling Chaerea derogatory names.

The bulk of what is known of Caligula comes from Suetonius and Cassius Dio.

Suetonius wrote his history on Caligula 80 years after his death, while Cassius Dio wrote his history over 180 years after Caligula's death.

Suetonius said that Caligula suffered from " falling sickness ", or epilepsy, when he was young.

* Suetonius, The Lives of Twelve Caesars, Life of Caligula

According to Suetonius, the Roman Emperor Caligula " gave orders that such statues of the gods as were especially famous for their sanctity or for their artistic merit, including that of Zeus at Olympia, should be brought from Greece, in order to remove their heads and put his own in their place.

* Suetonius, Caligula, 16

According to Suetonius, Macro gained further favor by turning a blind eye to his wife Eunia's affair with Caligula around the year 34 AD.

Suetonius also wrote that it was said that Caligula planned to make Incitatus a consul, and that the horse would " invite " dignitaries to dine with him in a house outfitted with servants there to entertain such events.

Later on the ne serva agreements became enforceable by law Prostitution was not limited to slaves or poor citizens ; according to Suetonius ( albeit in a possible exaggeration ), Caligula when converting his palace into a brothel employed upper class " matrons and youths " as prostitutes.

Adminius, whose power-base appears from his coins to have been in Kent, was exiled by his father shortly before AD 40 according to Suetonius, prompting the emperor Caligula to mount his abortive invasion of Britain.

# Adminio, Cunobellini Brittannorum regis filio ( Suetonius, Caligula, Ch.

in The Twelve Caesars, Suetonius attributes the following quote to Tiberius, speaking about the future emperor Caligula, " Caius ( Caligula ) was destined to be the destruction of him, and them all ; and that he was cherishing a hydra for the people of Rome, and a Phaeton for all the world " This means, more or less, that Caligula will bring about the destruction of the Empire.

The Roman historians Suetonius and Cassius Dio record that in 23 BC, Augustus prepared a rationarium ( account ) which listed public revenues, the amounts of cash in the aerarium ( treasury ), in the provincial fisci ( tax officials ), and in the hands of the publicani ( public contractors ); and that it included the names of the freedmen and slaves from whom a detailed account could be obtained.

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

He was stabbed 23 times, but, according to Suetonius, a physician later established that only one wound, the second one to his chest, had been lethal.

Tacitus charges that Livia was not altogether innocent of these deaths and Cassius Dio also mentions such rumours, but not even the gossipmonger Suetonius, who had access to official documents, repeats them.

In defence of the identification of the group as the Domitii Ahenobarbi and of the boy as Gnaeus, Pollini has pointed out that Suetonius specifically mentions that Nero's father went " to the East on the staff of the young Gaius Caesar ".

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.

Cunobeline or Cunobelinus ( also written Kynobellinus, Κυνοβελλίνος in Greek and sometimes abbreviated to Cunobelin ) ( late 1st century BC-40s AD ) was a historical king in pre-Roman Britain, known from passing mentions by classical historians Suetonius and Dio Cassius, and from his many inscribed coins.

Suetonius ' account of Augustus mentions the divine omens she experienced before and after his birth:

* Emblematic Scenes in Suetonius ' " Vitellius "-interpretive essay, makes several mentions of the stairs

Suetonius mentions it as an example of the moral failings of Caligula.

Suetonius mentions passingly that: " Nero's reign Punishments were also inflicted on the Christians, a sect professing a new and mischievous religious belief " but he doesn't explain for what they were punished.

The first apparent usage of the term " euthanasia " belongs to the historian Suetonius who described how the Emperor Augustus, " dying quickly and without suffering in the arms of his wife, Livia, experienced the ' euthanasia ' he had wished for.

Some modern historians regard these tales as sensationalized, but Suetonius ' stories at least paint a picture of how Tiberius was perceived by the Roman people at the time.

One of the first operas to use historical events and people rather than classical mythology, it adapts incidents from the writings of Tacitus, Suetonius and others to recount how Poppea, mistress of the Roman emperor Nerone ( Nero ), is able to achieve her ambition and be crowned empress.

Suetonius makes the sensible remark that both accounts might have been made by either flatterers or enemies of Vitellius — except that both were in circulation before Vitellius became emperor.

According to Suetonius, this caused consternation ; the ceremony required Titus to wear a diadem, which the Romans associated with kingship, and the partisanship of Titus's legions had already led to fears that he might rebel against his father.

A section covering the reigns of Philip the Arab, Decius, Trebonianus Gallus, Aemilian and all but the end of the reign of Valerian is missing in all the manuscripts, and it has been argued that biographies of Nerva and Trajan have also been lost at the beginning of the work, which may suggest the compilation might have been a direct continuation of Suetonius.

According to Valerius Maximus, Suetonius and Cicero, Claudius threw them into the sea, ut biberent, quando esse nollent (" so that they might drink, since they refused to eat ").

" Critics warn that this account is most likely inaccurate, and that Suetonius might have used this legend as a means to criticize Caligula.