* 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.

* Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, Claudius.

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.

* 44 BC: According to Suetonius, a sibylline prediction that only a king could triumph over Parthia fueled rumors that Caesar, leader of the then-republic, was aspiring to kingship.

According to Suetonius, Valerius Maximus, Appian and Dio Cassius, at Julius Caesar's funeral in 44 BC, a certain Helvius Cinna was killed because he was mistaken for Cornelius Cinna, the conspirator.

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 ).

* Suetonius publishes Of illustrious men ( De viris illustribus ).

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 ).

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 ).