Suetonius claims that Germanicus was poisoned in Syria by an agent of Tiberius, who viewed Germanicus as a political rival.

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.

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 ' claims, however, have to be taken with a degree of scepticism.

The historian Josephus claims that the conspirators wished to restore the Republic while the historian Suetonius claims their motivations were mostly personal.

Suetonius claims that the emperor Vespasian regretted his own triumph, because its vast length and slow movement bored him.

Alternatively, Suetonius claims that Julius Caesar and Marcus Licinius Crassus directed the conspiracy, but he fails to mention Catiline's involvement.

Suetonius claims this of Nero and the Domus Aurea:

Suetonius further claims that " considered as his own child for no better reason than her savage temper, which was such even in her infancy, that she would attack with her nails the face and eyes of the children at play with her.

Suetonius himself claims Caesar said nothing as he died.

Suetonius alleges that Tiberius had a low opinion of Julia's character, while Tacitus claims that she disdained Tiberius as an unequal match and even sent her father a letter, written by Sempronius Gracchus, denouncing him.

Suetonius claims that Caligula, the son of Julia's daughter Agrippina and Tiberius's nephew Germanicus, loathed the idea of being grandson of Agrippa, who came from comparatively humble origins.

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.

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.

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 ’ s Caligula, clause 23, mentions how he might have poisoned her. When his grandmother Antonia asked for a private interview, he refused it except in the presence of the prefect Macro, and by such indignities and annoyances he caused her death ; although some think that he also gave her poison.

* 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.

On hearing the news of the revolt, Suetonius hurried to Londinium ( London ), the twenty-year-old commercial settlement that was the rebels ' next target.

Suetonius Paulinus rode to London, the rebels ' next target, but concluded it could not be defended.

In this story, Suetonius is a witness to the events before and after Antinous's death by suicide, but learns that he himself was used as an instrument to trick Antinous into killing himself willingly to fulfill a pact made by Hadrian with Egyptian priests to give Hadrian more time to live so that Marcus Aurelius may grow up to become the next Emperor.

Suetonius brought Mona to terms and marched along the Roman road of Watling Street to Londinium ( London ), the rebels ' next target, but judged he did not have the numbers to defend the city and ordered it evacuated.

According to an anecdote preserved by Suetonius, Caesar did not deny that Catullus's lampoons left an indelible stain on his reputation, but when Catullus apologized, he invited the poet for dinner the very same day.

As Emperor he became known for his generosity, and Suetonius states that upon realising he had brought no benefit to anyone during a whole day he remarked, " Friends, I have lost a day.

With the throne tightly secured, Vitellius engaged in a series of feasts, banquets ( Suetonius refers to three a day: morning, afternoon and night ) and triumphal parades that drove the imperial treasury close to bankruptcy.

Suetonius reports that she despised her younger brother Claudius ; having heard he would one day become Emperor, she deplored publicly such a fate for the Roman people.

The historian, Dr Graham Webster has suggested it took place near Manduessedum (" the place of the war chariots "), modern day Mancetter and military finds of armour and military coinage relating to the 14th Legion, whom Tacitus records formed part of Suetonius ' army, have been found in the region, giving weight to Webster's hypothesis.

She was pregnant when they married and gave birth to Julia Drusilla only one month later ; Suetonius, on the other hand, says she gave birth on their wedding day.