* Suetonius, De vita Casearum ( On the Life of the Caesars ) Augustus, Tiberius iii. 52. 3, 53 and Caligula iv. 23. 1

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.

Important also is De viris illustribus, written at Bethlehem in 392, the title and arrangement of which are borrowed from Suetonius.

* Suetonius publishes Of illustrious men ( De viris illustribus ).

Upon hearing of the defeat, the Emperor Augustus, according to the Roman historian Suetonius in his work De vita Caesarum (" On the Life of the Caesars "), was so shaken by the news that he stood butting his head against the walls of his palace, repeatedly shouting:

* Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Iul i. 35. 52, ii. 17.

* A response to Cicero's De re publica, comprising six books, which later induced Suetonius to write a counter-response

He was by Augustus elected superintendent of the Palatine library according to Suetonius ' De Grammaticis, 20.

From Suetonius ( De grammaticis, 23 ) we learn that he was originally a slave who obtained his freedom and taught grammar at Rome.

He died at an advanced age during the reign of Tiberius ( Suetonius, De Grammaticis, 17 ), and a statue in his honour was erected at Praeneste, in a marble recess, with inscriptions from his Fasti.

Their salutation is a well-known Latin phrase quoted in Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum (" The Life of the Caesars ", or " The Twelve Caesars ").

* Suetonius, De Vita Caesarum, II, 14-5.

The 2nd century writer Apuleius claimed that Catullus gave his lover Clodia the pseudonym Lesbia ; Wiseman traces Apuleius ’ s source for this claim to the historian Suetonius, and Suetonius ’ sources to C. Julius Hyginus ’ s De Vita Rebusque Illustrium Virorum.

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.

The earliest reference to him is perhaps in Suetonius ( De grammaticis, 3 ), though it is not certain that the " Laevius Milissus " there referred to is the same person.

Some of the lost works of Suetonius ' " illustrious people " and Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium are a mixture of women and men, where others like Petrarch's De Viris Illustribus and Jerome's De Viris Illustribus are biographies of exclusively men.

* Suetonius, De grammaticis, 2

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 ).

In 60 – 61, while Governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus was campaigning in Wales, the southeast of Britain rose in revolt under the leadership of Boudica.

His general Suetonius Paulinus crushed a revolt in Britain and also annexed the Bosporan Kingdom to the Empire, beginning the First Roman – Jewish War.

Titus returned quickly to Rome – hoping, says Suetonius, to allay any suspicions about his conduct.

* Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus ( 70 / 75 – after 130 AD ), biographer

" Other works of Guevara are the Decada de los Césares ( Valladolid, 1539 ), or " Lives of the Ten Roman Emperors ," in imitation of the manner of Plutarch and Suetonius ; and the Epistolas familiares ( Valladolid, 1539 – 1545 ), sometimes called " The Golden Letters ," often printed in Spain, and translated into all the principal languages of Europe.

In his view the History is primarily a literary product – an exercise in historical fiction ( or ' fictional history ') produced by a ' rogue scholiast ' catering to ( and making fun of ) the antiquarian tendencies of the Theodosian age, in which Suetonius and Marius Maximus were fashionable reading and Ammianus Marcellinus was producing sober history in the manner of Tacitus.

Records like these are quite distinct from the rhetorical speeches often inserted by ancient historians – it was accepted practice for the writer to invent these himself – and on the few occasions when historians ( such as Sallust in his work on Catiline or Suetonius in his Twelve Caesars ) include such documents, they have generally been regarded as genuine ; but almost all those found in the Historia Augusta have been rejected as fabrications, partly on stylistic grounds, partly because they refer to military titles or points of administrative organisation which are otherwise unrecorded until long after the purported date, or for other suspicious content.

* Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars – Titus & Domitian 17, 22.

Suetonius states that a total of 35 senators and 300 knights were executed for offenses during Claudius ' reign.

According to Suetonius, Claudius was extraordinarily fond of games.

Suetonius and the other ancient authors used this against Claudius.

The historian Suetonius describes the physical manifestations of Claudius ' affliction in relatively good detail.

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.

Since Claudius ( like most of the members of his dynasty ) heavily criticized his predecessors and relatives in surviving speeches, it is not hard to imagine the nature of Suetonius ' charge.

Suetonius quotes Claudius ' autobiography once, and must have used it as a source numerous times.

Suetonius painted Claudius as a ridiculous figure, belittling many of his acts and attributing the objectively good works to his retinue.

: Suetonius wrote "... for even if he was not the instigator of the emperor's death, he was at least privy to it, as he openly admitted ; for he used afterwards to laud mushrooms, the vehicle in which the poison was administered to Claudius, as " the food of the gods ," as the Greek proverb has it.

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, Claudius divorced her in 24 on grounds of adultery by Plautia and his suspicions of her involvement in the murder of her sister-in-law Apronia.

According to Suetonius, he was born with the praenomen Decimus, but it was later changed to Nero-an unusual example of using a second cognomen as a praenomen rather than an agnomen: " Nero " was a traditional cognomen of the Claudius family, whereas " Drusus " originally belonged to the Livius dynasty.

* " increase in the number of Greek words in ordinary use " ( Claudius Suetonius refers to " both our languages ", Latin and Greek )

Graves claimed that after he read Suetonius, Claudius came to him in a dream one night and demanded that his real story be told.

Claudius arrived with reinforcements, including artillery and elephants, but as Suetonius and Claudius ' triumphal arch state, the British kings surrendered without further bloodshed.

This theory is supported by Suetonius, who writes that Claudius came ex Regillis oppido Sabinorum ; that is, " from Regillum, a town of the Sabines.

" This appears to conflict with the tradition that Claudius was a native of Cures, and may simply be speculation on the part of Suetonius, but there is nothing inherently improbable about this theory.

According to Suetonius, Claudius divorced Paetina for slight offenses.

* Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, Claudius.

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.

In Claudius 25 Suetonius refers to the expulsion of Jews by Claudius and states:

Just as Graves ' Claudius books ( I, Claudius and Claudius the God and his Wife Messalina ) were based upon, for example, The Twelve Caesars of Suetonius, Count Belisarius is largely based on Procopius's History of Justinian's Wars and Secret History.