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.

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.

According to Suetonius in his De vita Caesarum ( The Lives of the Twelve Caesars ), written in the first century CE, the emperor Augustus sometimes presented old and exotic coins to friends and courtiers during festivals and other special occasions.

With regards to the emperor himself as a religious figure, both Suetonius and Cassius Dio allege that Domitian officially gave himself the title of Dominus et Deus.

In this tradition Julius Caesar is sometimes described as the first Caesar / emperor ( following Suetonius ).

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.

If the palace was designed for Lucullus, then it may have only been in use for a few years, for the Roman historian Suetonius records that Lucullus was executed by the delusional emperor Domitian in or shortly after AD 93.

Despite concerns over his character, Titus ruled to great acclaim following the death of Vespasian in 79, and was considered a good emperor by Suetonius and other contemporary historians.

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, the Octavian family held some renown there, and Gaius Octavius ( father of the future Caesar Augustus ) defeated a Spartacist army near there ; as a result, the future emperor was granted the surname Thurinus shortly after birth.

According to Suetonius in The Twelve Caesars, the emperor Tiberius liked to annoy scholars with obscure questions, and one of his favorites was " Who was Hecuba's mother?

In his life of the emperor Tiberius, who was a scion of the Claudii, the historian Suetonius gives a summary of the gens, and says, " as time went on it was honoured with twenty-eight consulships, five dictatorships, seven censorships, six triumphs, and two ovations.

An emperor, Nero, descended from an aristocratic family, is by the historian Suetonius described as: "... his hair light blond ,... his eyes blue ..."

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.

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 said that " after the birth of his daughter, complaining of his poverty, and the burdens to which he was subjected, not only as an emperor, but a father, he made a general collection for her maintenance and fortune.

Suetonius ' account, written many years after the event, has them salute the emperor with the phrase " morituri te salutant " (" those who are about to die salute you ").

Pliny the Elder reports that Germanicus ' son, the future emperor Gaius ( Caligula ), was born " among the Treveri, at the village of Ambiatinus, above Koblenz ", but Suetonius notes that this birthplace was disputed by other sources.

Later, Suetonius describes the first century Roman invasion of Vectis by the Second Legion Augusta, commanded by the Claudian legate and future emperor Vespasian, who " proceeded to Britain where he fought thirty battles, subjugated two warlike tribes, and captured more than twenty towns, besides the entire Isle of Vectis ".

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.

Many Romans did not know much about Judaism, including the emperor Augustus who, according to his biographer Suetonius, thought that Jews fasted on the sabbath.

The emperor is described as a handsome youth, like Mars and Apollo, whose accession marks the beginning of a new golden age, prognosticated by the appearance of a comet, doubtless the same that appeared some time before the death of Claudius ; he exhibits splendid games in the amphitheatre ( probably the wooden amphitheatre erected by Nero in 57 ); and in the words " maternis causam qui vicit lulis " ( i. 45 ) there is a reference to the speech delivered in Greek by Nero on behalf of the Ilienses ( Suetonius, Nero, 7 ; Tacitus, Annals, xii.

Roman historian Suetonius has a passage in his De Vita Caesarum which inconclusively states that Roman emperor Tiberius took great pleasure from forcing women, even those of rank, to perform fellatio.

Augustus modified the Persian system, as Suetonius notes, because a courier who travels the whole distance could be interrogated by the emperor upon arrival, in order to receive additional information orally.

The subject was taken from the Roman historian Suetonius, who recounts the story of the Roman emperor Titus and Berenice of Cilicia, the sister of Agrippa II.

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.

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 ).

* Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars: Vespasian 3, 21 ; Domitian 12. 3

* The rumor that Vespasian fell asleep during a song sung by Nero is recorded by Suetonius in the Lives of the Twelve Caesars.

* Sextus Julius Gabinianus, a celebrated rhetorician who taught in Gaul during the time of Vespasian, and was spoken of by Suetonius in de Claris Rhetoribus.

* Suetonius, Vespasian, 4

13 ; Suetonius, Vespasian, 15 ; Pliny, Epp.

Not surprisingly, the Durotriges resisted Roman invasion in AD 43, and the historian Suetonius records some fights between the tribe and the second legion Augusta, then commanded by Vespasian.

* Suetonius, Vespasian 6. 3

Vologases was satisfied with this result, and honored the memory of Nero ( Suetonius Nero, 57 ), though he stood in good relations with Vespasian also, to whom he offered an army of 40, 000 archers in the war against Vitellius.

* Suetonius, Vespasian, 6 ; Nero, 57 ; Domitian, 2.