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Suetonius and further
Fearing Suetonius ' actions would provoke further rebellion, Nero replaced the governor with the more conciliatory Publius Petronius Turpilianus.
Dio further suggests that the assassination was improvised, while Suetonius implies a well organised conspiracy.
When Domitian found out, he allegedly murdered Paris in the street and promptly divorced his wife, with Suetonius further adding that once Domitia was exiled, Domitian took Julia as his mistress, who later died during a failed abortion.
" An editor's enthusiasm is soon chilled by the discovery that Isidore's book is really a mosaic of pieces borrowed from previous writers, sacred and profane, often their ' ipsa verba ' without alteration ," W. M. Lindsay noted in 1911, having recently edited Isidore for the Clarendon Press, with the further observation, however, that a portion of the texts quoted have otherwise been lost: the Prata of Suetonius can only be reconstructed from Isidore's excerpts.
Claudius arrived with reinforcements, including artillery and elephants, but as Suetonius and Claudius ' triumphal arch state, the British kings surrendered without further bloodshed.
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.
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.
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.
Fearing Suetonius ' punitive policies would provoke further rebellion, Nero replaced the governor with the more conciliatory Publius Petronius Turpilianus.

Suetonius and adds
Suetonius adds the macabre detail that " when she died ... after a delay of several days, during which he held out hope of his coming, was at last buried because the condition of the corpse made it necessary ...".

Suetonius and once
Suetonius quotes Claudius ' autobiography once, and must have used it as a source numerous times.
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 ).
Suetonius Tranquillus asserts that Sejanus was merely an instrument of Tiberius to hasten the downfall of Germanicus and his family, and that he was quickly disposed of once he ceased to be useful.

Suetonius and Domitia
According to Suetonius, Domitia Longina was exiled in 83 because of an affair with a famous actor named Paris.
The contemporary historian Suetonius speculated on the possible involvement of Domitian in his brother's death, attributing his final words to a popular rumour of the time, which held that Titus had carried on an affair with Domitia Longina.
According to Suetonius, Domitia was exiled because of an affair with a famous actor named Paris.

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.
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.

Suetonius and exiled
Suetonius tells us he was exiled by Cunobelinus ca.
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.
Suetonius tells us he was deposed and exiled by his father c. 39 or 40.

Suetonius and Domitian
After his death, Domitian's memory was condemned to oblivion by the Roman Senate, while senatorial authors such as Tacitus, Pliny the Younger and Suetonius published histories propagating the view of Domitian as a cruel and paranoid tyrant.
With regard to Domitian's personality, however, the account of Suetonius alternates sharply between portraying Domitian as the emperor-tyrant, a man both physically and intellectually lazy, and the intelligent, refined personality drawn elsewhere.
According to Suetonius, the imperial bureaucracy never ran more efficiently than under Domitian, whose exacting standards and suspicious nature maintained historically low corruption among provincial governors and elected officials.
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.
According to Suetonius, some were convicted for corruption or treason, others on trivial charges, which Domitian justified through his suspicion:
According to Suetonius, Domitian worshipped Minerva as his protector goddess with superstitious veneration.
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 ).
According to Suetonius, Domitian wholly feigned his interest in arts and literature, and never bothered to acquaint himself with classic authors.
His contemporary Suetonius wrote biographies of the 12 Roman rulers from Julius Caesar through Domitian.
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.
Suetonius and Cassius Dio maintain he died of natural causes, but both accuse Domitian of having left the ailing Titus for dead.
* Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars: Vespasian 3, 21 ; Domitian 12. 3
* Suetonius, The Lives of Twelve Caesars, Life of Domitian, Latin text with English translation
According to Suetonius ( Domitian, IV, 6-7 ), Domitian organised a naumachia inside the Colosseum, undoubtedly circa 85 CE, and another one in the year 89 CE in a new basin dug beyond the Tiber ; with the stone removed serving to repair the Circus Maximus, which had burnt on two sides.
Circumcision was sufficiently rare among non-Jews that being circumcised was considered conclusive evidence of Judaism ( or Early Christianity and others derogatorily called Judaizers ) in Roman courts — Suetonius in Domitian 12. 2 described a court proceeding in which a ninety-year-old man was stripped naked before the court to determine whether he was evading the head tax placed on Jews and Judaizers.
According to Suetonius, during the reign of Domitian ( 81-96 ):
Little is known of him other than the story recorded by Suetonius that Emperor Domitian put him to death for naming a new lance after himself.
* Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars – Titus & Domitian 17, 22.
* Suetonius, Vespasian, 6 ; Nero, 57 ; Domitian, 2.
The Emperor Domitian liked to stage torch-lit fights between dwarves and women, according to Suetonius in The Twelve Caesars.

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