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

Suetonius and Caligula
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.

Suetonius and was
According to Suetonius, Domitius was a wealthy man with a despicable and dishonest character, who, according to Suetonius, was “ A man who was in every aspect of his life detestable ", and served as consul in 32.
Suetonius states that Domitius was congratulated by friends on the birth of his son, whereupon he replied " I don't think anything produced by me and Agrippina could possibly be good for the state or the people ".
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.
In AD 60 or 61, while the Roman governor, Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, was leading a campaign on the island of Anglesey off the northwest coast of Wales — Boudica led the Iceni people in revolt, along with the Trinovantes and others ,.
On hearing the news of the revolt, Suetonius hurried to Londinium ( London ), the twenty-year-old commercial settlement that was the rebels ' next target.
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 ).
In AD 60 or 61, while the current governor, Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, was leading a campaign against the island of Mona ( modern Anglesey ) in the north of Wales, which was a refuge for British rebels and a stronghold of the druids, the Iceni conspired with their neighbours the Trinovantes, amongst others, to revolt.
Suetonius, however, with wonderful resolution, marched amidst a hostile population to Londinium, which, though undistinguished by the name of a colony, was much frequented by a number of merchants and trading vessels.
Londinium was abandoned to the rebels who burnt it down, slaughtering anyone who had not evacuated with Suetonius.
Agricola was a military tribune under Suetonius Paulinus, which almost certainly gave Tacitus an eyewitness source for Boudica's revolt.
According to Suetonius, Claudius was extraordinarily fond of games.
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.
Dio was less biased, but seems to have used Suetonius and Tacitus as sources.

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