According to the historian Suetonius, Augustus ' successor, Tiberius, was offered this title, but refused it.

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 considered giving battle there, but considering his lack of numbers and chastened by Petillius's defeat, decided to sacrifice the city to save the province.

The governor however, Suetonius Paulinus, marched back from his campaign in Wales to face Boudicca in battle.

When Caecina joined his forces with those of Fabius Valens, Suetonius advised Otho not to risk a battle but was overruled, leading to Otho's decisive defeat at Bedriacum.

Suetonius was captured by Vitellius and obtained a pardon by claiming that he had deliberately lost the battle for Otho, although this was almost certainly untrue.

There is a longstanding folklore belief that this battle took place at King ’ s Cross, simply because as a medieval village it was known as Battle Bridge ; Tacitus describes the site: " Suetonius chose a place with narrow jaws, backed by a forest " but does not mention the River Fleet, which flowed here.

Tacitus and Suetonius were using it as a synonym for the battle ship.

The first apparent usage of the term " euthanasia " belongs to the historian Suetonius who described how the Emperor Augustus, " dying quickly and without suffering in the arms of his wife, Livia, experienced the ' euthanasia ' he had wished for.

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

Nero's father was described by Suetonius as a murderer and a cheat who was charged by Emperor Tiberius with treason, adultery, and incest.

On the 12 emperors described by Suetonius.

In his notes to the Augustan History, Thayer notes that " Nero did this also ( Suetonius, Nero, xxxi ), and a similar ceiling in the house of Trimalchio is described in Petronius, Sat., lx.

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

While other Roman writers of the time, such as Cicero, Suetonius, Lucan, Tacitus and Pliny the Elder, described human sacrifice among the Celts, only Caesar and the geographer Strabo mention the wicker man as one of many ways the Druids of Gaul performed sacrifices.

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.

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.

Pliny the Elder described in some detail the area south of the Atlas Mountains, when the expedition of Gaius Suetonius Paulinus was done in 41 AD:

* Many famous generals had renowned mounts, including Julius Caesar's legendary horse with " toes " described by Suetonius, the Duke of Wellington's famed charger Copenhagen, Napoleon Bonaparte's Marengo, Alexander the Great's horse Bucephalus, and Robert E. Lee's horse Traveller.

Mark Antony later charged that Octavian had earned his adoption by Caesar through sexual favours, though Suetonius, in his work Lives of the Twelve Caesars, describes Antony's accusation as political slander.

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.

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.

Suetonius conducted punitive operations, but criticism by Classicianus led to an investigation headed by Nero's freedman Polyclitus.

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.

Catullus's poems and the closing section by Suetonius are the only documents in the novel which are not imagined.

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

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.

It was said by Suetonius that over 160, 000 animals were sacrificed during three months of public rejoicing to usher in the new reign.

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 reports that other senators were degraded by being forced to wait on him and run beside his chariot.

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.

According to Suetonius, Caligula's body was placed under turf until it was burned and entombed by his sisters.

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.

A detailed description of Domitian's appearance and character is provided by Suetonius, who devotes a substantial part of his biography to his personality.

A highly detailed account of the plot and the assassination is provided by Suetonius, who alleges that Domitian's chamberlain Parthenius was the chief instigator behind the conspiracy, citing the recent execution of Domitian's secretary Epaphroditus as the primary motive.

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 ).

The later biographies of Caesar by Suetonius and Plutarch are also major sources.

" It has no basis in historical fact and Shakespeare's use of Latin here is not from any assertion that Caesar would have been using the language, rather than the Greek reported by Suetonius, but because the phrase was already popular when the play was written.

Agricola was a military tribune under Suetonius Paulinus, which almost certainly gave Tacitus an eyewitness source for Boudica's revolt.

The main ancient historians Tacitus, Suetonius, and Cassius Dio all wrote after the last of the Flavians had gone.

Dio was less biased, but seems to have used Suetonius and Tacitus as sources.

Both Tacitus and Suetonius speak of escalating persecutions toward the end of Domitian's reign, identifying a point of sharp increase around 93, or sometime after the failed revolt of Saturninus in 89.

Furthermore, contemporary historians such as Pliny the Younger, Tacitus and Suetonius all authored the information on his reign after it had ended, and his memory had been condemned to oblivion.

The historians Tacitus and Suetonius record the funeral and posthumous honors of Germanicus.

The ancient historical writers, chiefly Suetonius and Tacitus, write from the point of view of the Roman senatorial aristocracy, and portray the Emperors in generally negative terms, whether from preference for the Roman Republic or love of a good scandalous story.

This view is based on the writings of Tacitus, Suetonius, and Cassius Dio, the main surviving sources for Nero's reign.

Other writers, namely Tacitus and Cassius Dio, disagree with some of Suetonius ' assertions, even though their own accounts of Vitellius are scarcely positive ones.

According to Tacitus ( ii. 97 ), his rule was " infamous and odious " but according to Suetonius ( Vesp.

* The Druidic stronghold of Anglesey in north Wales is attacked and destroyed by Suetonius Paulinus ( Tacitus, Annals xiv 30 ).

According to the First Century Roman historian Tacitus, she died by poisoning herself so she would not be enslaved by the Roman governor, Suetonius Paulinus.

He was a friend of the historian Tacitus and employed the biographer Suetonius in his staff.

The ancient Roman sources, particularly Tacitus and Suetonius, portray Messalina as extremely lustful, but also insulting, disgraceful, cruel, and avaricious ; they claimed her negative qualities were a result of her inbreeding.

Tacitus charges that Livia was not altogether innocent of these deaths and Cassius Dio also mentions such rumours, but not even the gossipmonger Suetonius, who had access to official documents, repeats them.

The sources Orosius used have been investigated by Teodoro de Mörner ; besides the Old and New Testaments, he appears to have consulted Caesar, Livy, Justin, Tacitus, Suetonius, Florus and a cosmography, attaching also great value to Jerome's translation of the Chronicles of Eusebius.

Most historical documentation of Tiberius ' revenge is given from Suetonius and Tacitus.

Graves's interpretation of the story owes much to the histories of Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, Plutarch, and ( especially ) Suetonius ( Lives of the Twelve Caesars ).

However, ancient authors, such as Tacitus and Suetonius, are unanimous about poison having been added to the mushroom dish, rather than the dish having been prepared from poisonous mushrooms.

Roman historians like Suetonius, Tacitus, Plutarch, and Josephus often spoke of " tyranny " in opposition to " liberty ".

Apart from Seneca he is mentioned by Tacitus, Quintilian, Suetonius and Dio Cassius.

The varying historical accounts of the event come from three secondary sources — Cassius Dio, Suetonius and Tacitus.