1. Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius  (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum, D English translation by Rolfe of Divus Iulius, part of De Vita Caesarum by suetonius http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/suetonius-julius.html

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE) De Vita Caesarum, Divus Iulius (The Lives of the Caesars, The Deified Julius), written c. 110 CE I. II. He served his first campaign in Asia on the personal staff of Marcus Thermus, governor of the province [81 BC]. Being sent by Thermus to Bithynia, to fetch a fleet, he dawdled so long at the court of Nicomedes that he was suspected of improper relations with the king; and he lent color to this scandal by going back to Bithynia a few days after his return, with the alleged purpose of collecting a debt for a freedman, one of his dependents. During the rest of the campaign he enjoyed a better reputation, and at the storming of Mytilene [80 BC] Thermus awarded him the civic crown [a chaplet of oak leaves, given for saving the life of a fellow-citizen, the highest military award of the Roman state]. III. He served too under Servilius Isauricus in Cilicia, but only for a short time; for learning of the death of Sulla, and at the same time hoping to profit by a counter-revolution which Marcus Lepidus was setting on foot, he hurriedly returned to Rome [78 BC]. But he did not make common cause with Lepidus, although he was offered highly favorable terms, through lack of confidence both in that leader's capacity and in the outlook, which he found less promising than he had expected. IV.

2. Roman Writers, Writing And Historians: Suetonius Article suetonius. AD 69 about AD 140. Caesars. suetonius was a friend of Pliny the Younger, who also wrote about events of the period. http://myron.sjsu.edu/romeweb/WRITERS/art9.htm

Contents Previous Article Next Article Suetonius A.D. 69 - about A.D. 140 GAIVS SVETONIVS TRANQVILLVS was a Roman writer of the first and second centuries A.D. who wrote about the lives of the first Roman emperors and their families. Suetonius concentrated on the private lives of the people he wrote about, while Tacitus, another contemporary historian, wrote about political events and the emperors conducted affairs of state. Both Suetonius and Tacitus, however, wrote a lot about scandalous events and the immoral and pleasure-seeking lifestyles of the Roman aristocrats of the time. Unlike Tacitus, Suetonius did try to report events fairly and didn't attempt to paint every emperor as a power hungry tyrant who ruled at the expense of traditional Roman rights and freedoms. His most famous work was The Lives of the Caesars , often translated and titled The Twelve Caesars. Suetonius was a friend of Pliny the Younger, who also wrote about events of the period. Go to next article: Go back to previous article: Return to Roman Writers, Writing, and Historians Table of Contents Return to History and Technology Back Pages - The home page for this entire site. Navigation and Help Roman Emperors Roman Women Interesting Events ... Glossary

3. Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius  (c.69-after 122 CE): The Divine Augustus English translation by Worthington of Divus Augustus, part of De Vita Caesarum by suetonius http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/suetonius-augustus.html

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE) The Divine Augustus 1. That the family of the Octavii was of the first distinction in Velitrae, is rendered evident by many circumstances. For in the most frequented part of the town there was, not long since, a street named the Octavian; and an altar was to be seen, consecrated to one Octavius, who being chosen general in a war with some neighbouring people, the enemy making a sudden attack, while he was sacrificing to Mars, he immediately snatched the entrails of the victim from off the fire, and offered them half raw upon the altar; after which, marching out to battle, he returned victorious. This incident gave rise to a law, by which it was enacted, that in all future times the entrails should be offered to Mars in the same manner; and the rest of the victim be carried to the Octavii. 5. Augustus was born in the consulship of Marcus Tullius Cicero and Gaius Antonius [63 BCE], upon the ninth of the calends of October [the 23rd September], a little before sunrise, in the quarter of the Palatine Hill, and the street called The Ox-Heads, where now stands a chapel dedicated to him, and built a little after his death. For, as it is recorded in the proceedings of the senate, Gaius Laetorius, a young man of a patrician family, in pleading before the senators for a lighter sentence, upon his being convicted of adultery, alleged, besides his youth and quality, that he was the possessor, and as it were the guardian, of the ground which the Divine Augustus first touched upon his coming into the world; and entreated that he might find favour, for the sake of that deity, who was in a peculiar manner his; an act of the senate was passed, for the consecration of that part of his house in which Augustus was born.

4. Suetonius Divus Iulius. Divus Augustus. Tiberius. Caligula. Divus Claudius. Nero. Galba. Otho. Vitellius. Divus Vespasianus. Titus. Domitianus. De grammaticis. De rhetoribus. De poetis. The Latin Library. The http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/suet.html

C. SVETONIVS TRANQVILLVS Divus Iulius Divus Augustus Tiberius Caligula ... The Classics Page

5. Suetonius suetonius on Early Christian Writings the New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, and Church Fathers information and translations of Gospels, Epistles, and documents of early Christianity. suetonius. Online Text for suetonius Online Resources for suetonius. suetonius Electronic Texts and Resources http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/suetonius.html

Suetonius Online Text for Suetonius Perseus: Lives of the Caesars in Latin Lives of the Caesars: Rolfe Translation Online Resources for Suetonius Suetonius: Electronic Texts and Resources Josh McDowell's "Evidence" for Jesus: Is It Reliable? (On Suetonius by Jeffery Jay Lowder) Information on Suetonius In The Life of Claudius 25.4, we find the statement, "As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he expelled them from Rome." This is plausibly a reference to the expulsion of Jewish Christians from Rome. The author of Acts makes mention of this same expulsion, which occurred in 49 CE according to the fifth century church father Orosius, in Acts 18:2. "There he [Paul] met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome." Aquila and Priscilla seem to have been converted prior to meeting Paul. However, it is also possible that the Jews were expelled from Rome for a different cause. Chrestus is a suitable Greek name, so there may have been an agitator by the name of Chrestus in Rome. Or there may have been a different messianic pretender in Rome. It is difficult to say. Suetonius also makes mention of Nero's persecution in 16.2: "Punishment by Nero was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition."

6. Suetonius, The Life Of Augustus suetonius, Divus Augustus See Michael Adams (ed.), C. suetonius Tranquillus. Divi Augusti Vita http://www.csun.edu/~hcfll004/suet-aug.html

Suetonius, Divus Augustus 1-4 AUGUSTUS' ANCESTRY 5-8 AUGUSTUS' BOYHOOD 7: How he came to be called `Caesar Augustus' 9-19 THE CIVIL WARS 10: Augustus and Antony: Mutina 11: Hirtius and Pansa: suspicion of foul play 12: 43 B.C.: Octavian abandons the Optimate faction 13: The Second Triumvirate: Philippi (42 B.C.) Proscriptions 14: 40 B.C.: Perusia (15: `Arae Perusinae') 16: 38-36 B.C.: Sicily: Sextius Pompeius and Lepidus Naulochus 17: 31 B.C. September 2: Battle of Actium 18: Antonius and Cleopatra 19: Conspiracies and rebellions. 20-25 AUGUSTUS' FOREIGN WARS AND MILITARY POLICY 20: Wars Augustus fought in person 21: Wars fought by proxy (legati). Frontier policy. 22: Peace: The Temple of Janus 23: Triumphs and Disasters 24: Military Discipline 25: Slaves in the military: military rewards. Augustus' caution 26-28 AUGUSTUS AND THE CONSTITUTION: THE `PRINCIPATE' 26: The consulships (31-23, 12, 5) 27: The triumvirate. Tribunicia potestas. Censorships. 28: Augustus and the Republic. The new regime. 29-34 SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS 29: Public works in Rome 30: Social Services: fires and floods, road repair

7. Classics 219: The Roman Empire: Suetonius, Claudius CLA 219 The Roman Empire, Spring 2004, E J Champlin, Princeton University The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, C. Tranquillus suetonius, The Translation of Alexander Thomson, R http://www.princeton.edu/~champlin/cla219/csuet.htm

219 Home Lecture Outlines Precept Guides Precept Info ... WWW Links Tiberius Claudius Drusus Caesar (The Life of Claudius) The Lives of the Twelve Caesars , C. Tranquillus Suetonius, The Translation of Alexander Thomson, R. Worthington, New York (1883) Ch 10 Ch 20 Ch 30 1. Livia having married Augustus when she was pregnant was, within three months afterwards, delivered of Drusus, the father of Claudius Caesar, who had at first the praenomen of Decimus, but afterwards that of Nero; and it was suspected that he was begotten in adultery by his step-father [Augustus]. The following verse, however, was immediately in every one's mouth: Nine months for common births the fates decree; But, for the great, reduce the term to three. This Drusus, during the time of his being quaestor and praetor, commanded in the Rhaetian and German wars, and was the first of all the Roman generals who navigated the Northern Ocean. He made likewise some prodigious canals beyond the Rhine, which to this day are called by his name. He overthrew the enemy in several battles and drove them far back into the depths of the desert. Nor did he desist from pursuing them, until an apparition, in the form of a barbarian woman, of more than human size, appeared to him, and, in the Latin tongue, forbade him to proceed any further. For these achievements he had the honour of an ovation and the triumphal ornaments. After his praetorship, he immediately entered on the office of consul, and returning to Germany, died of disease, in the summer encampment, which thence obtained the name of

8. Caesar - Suetonius The Twelve Caesars Translated By Alexander Thomson And Thomas Caesar. From The Twelve Caesars by suetonius, translated by Alexander Thomson and Thomas Forester. The Life of Julius Caesar. Ancient / Classical History. Caesar suetonius. The Life of Caesar http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_suetcaesar.htm

zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About History Ancient / Classical History Home ... Trojan War Hero Achilles - Troy zau(256,152,145,'gob','http://z.about.com/5/ad/go.htm?gs='+gs,''); Atlas and Places - Where? Ancient Greece - Greek Ancient Rome - Romans ANE Egypt Persia Israel... ... Help zau(256,138,125,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/0.htm','');w(xb+xb); Stay Current Subscribe to the About Ancient / Classical History newsletter. Search Ancient / Classical History Caesar - Suetonius The Life of Caesar, from The Twelve Caesars, by Suetonius and translated by Alexander Thomson and Thomas Forester. Related Resources Plutarch Life of Caesar Suetonius - Life of Tiberius Caesar Julius Caesar Articles on this site THE TWELVE CAESARS. CAIUS JULIUS CAESAR. II. His first campaign was served in Asia, on the staff of the praetor, M. Thermus; and being dispatched into Bithynia [9], to bring thence a fleet, he loitered so long at the court of Nicomedes, as to give occasion to reports of a criminal intercourse between him and that prince; which received additional credit from his hasty return to Bithynia, under the pretext of recovering a debt due to a freed-man, his client. The rest of his service was more favourable to his reputation; and (3) when Mitylene [10] was taken by storm, he was presented by Thermus with the civic crown. [11] III. He served also in Cilicia [12], under Servilius Isauricus, but only for a short time; as upon receiving intelligence of Sylla's death, he returned with all speed to Rome, in expectation of what might follow from a fresh agitation set on foot by Marcus Lepidus. Distrusting, however, the abilities of this leader, and finding the times less favourable for the execution of this project than he had at first imagined, he abandoned all thoughts of joining Lepidus, although he received the most tempting offers.

9. Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum: Cai Ancient History Sourcebook suetonius (c.69after 122 CE) De Vita Caesarum Caius Caligula ( The Lives of the Caesars Caius Caligula), written c. 110 CE. I. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/suetonius-caligula.html

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum: Caius Caligula (The Lives of the Caesars: Caius Caligula), written c. 110 CE I. GERMANICUS, father of Gaius Caesar, son of Drusus and the younger Antonia, after being adopted by his paternal uncle Tiberius [4 A.D.], held the quaestorship [7 A.D.] five years before the legal age and passed directly to the consulship [12 A.D.] [ i.e., without holding any of the intermediate offices of the cursus honorem II. Now the belief was that he met his death through the wiles of Tiberius, aided and abetted by Gnaeus Piso. This man had been made governor of Syria at about that time, and realizing that he must give offence either to the father or the son, as if there were no alternative, he never ceased to show the bitterest enmity towards Germanicus in word and deed, even after the latter fell ill. In consequence Piso narrowly escaped being torn to pieces by the people on his return to Rome, and was condemned to death by the senate. III.

10. Stoa | Suetonius: Electronic Texts And Resources suetonius Electronic Texts and Resources. suetonius Electronic Texts and Resources. suetonius Ronald Mellor (ed.), The Historians of Ancient Rome. http://www.stoa.org/suetonius/

Suetonius: Electronic Texts and Resources Latin texts of the Lives English translations Essays On-Line Journals ... Book Reviews Suetonius: Electronic Texts and Resources The Stoa and the Perseus Project will be collaborating on a new electronic edition of Suetonius's Lives of the Caesars . This integrated electronic edition will contain Latin texts, English translations, and commentaries, together with links to the extensive lexical and geographical reference material available at Perseus. It is hoped that this edition of Suetonius can contribute to a core set of primary texts for ancient Roman biography at Perseus. Meanwhile, the Stoa can help to promote new ways of using and presenting electronic texts: I am especially hopeful that we can present versions of Suetonius at the Stoa designed for Latin students at different levels, ranging from beginning to advanced students. If you have an interest in Suetonius and/or in digital Latin texts, or if you know of other on-line Sueotonius resources that should be listed here, please contact the current editor, Laura Gibbs laura-gibbs@ou.edu

11. Gore Vidal : "Robert Graves And The Twelve Caesars" Gore Vidal's famous essay on Robert Grave's version of suetonius' writings. http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/desolation/gore-vidal.html

"Robert Graves and the Twelve Caesars" by Gore Vidal A little effete and even degenerate (but then I am a typical "20th century North American" in his eyes, I guess), Gore Vidal is an essayist of the highest rank, in my opinion. Below is an example of Vidal at his best - especially towards the end of his essay when he speaks of the ubiquitous tyranny of the post-WWII world. "Most of the world today is governed by Caesars. Men and more and more treated as things. Torture is ubiquitous. And, as Sartre wrote in his preface to Henri Alleg's chilling book about Algeria, 'Anyone, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.' Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tempted creatures, whose great moral task it is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within - for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster." Tiberius, Capri. Pool of water. Small children... So far so good. One's laborious translation was making awful sense. Then... Fish. Fish? The erotic mental image became surreal. Another victory for the Loeb Library's sly translator, J.C. Rolfe, who, correctly anticipating the pruriency of schoolboy readers, left Suetonius's gaudier passages in the hard original. One failed to crack those intriguing footnotes not because the syntax was so difficult (though it was not easy for students drilled in military rather than civilian Latin) but because the range of vice revealed was considerably beyond the imagination of even the most depraved schoolboy. There was a point at which one rejected one's own translation. Tiberius and the little fish, for instance.

12. Suetonius: Domitian Translate this page SVETONI TRANQVILII VITA DOMITIANI. http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/suetonius/suet.dom.html

SVETONI TRANQVILII VITA DOMITIANI II. Expeditionem quoque in Galliam Germaniasque neque necessariam et dissuadentibus paternis amicis inchoavit, tantum ut fratri se et opibus et dignatione adaequaret. III. Inter initia principatus cotidie secretum sibi horarum sumere solebat, nec quicquam amplius quam muscas captare ac stilo praeacuto configere; ut cuidam interroganti, essetne quis intus cum Caesare, non absurde responsum sit a Vibio Crispo, ne muscam quidem. Deinde uxorem Domitiam, ex qua in secundo suo consulatus filium tulerat duxit, alteroque anno consalutavit Augustam; eandem, Paridis histrionis amore deperditam, repudiavit, intraque breve tempus impatiens discidii, quasi efflagitante populo, reduxit. Circa administrationem autem imperii aliquamdiu se varium praestitit, mixtura quoque aequabili vitiorum atque virtutum; donec virtutes quoque in vitia deflexit: quantum coniectare licet, super ingenii naturam inopia rapax, metu saevus. IV. Spectacula assidue magnifica et sumptuosa edidit non in amphitheatro modo, verum et in circo; ubi praeter sollemnes bigarum quadrigarumque cursus proelium etiam duplex, equestre ac pedestre, commisit; at in amphitheatro navale quoque. Nam venationes gladiatoresque et noctibus ad lychnuchos; nec virorum modo pugnas, sed et feminarum. Praeterea quaestoriis muneribus, quae olim omissa revocaverat, ita semper interfuit, ut populo potestatem faceret bina paria e suo ludo postulandi, eaque novissima aulico apparatu induceret. Ac per omne gladiatorum spectaculum ante pedes ei stabat puerulus coccinatus parvo portentosoque capite, cum quo plurimum fabulabatur, nonnumquam serio. Auditus est certe, dum ex eo quaerit, ecquid sciret, cur sibi virum esset ordinatione proxima Aegypto praeficere Maecium Rufum. Edidit navales pugnas paene iustarum classium, effosso et circumstructo iuxta Tiberim lacu, atque inter maximos imbres perspectavit.

13. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Gaius suetonius Tranquillus. (Redirected from suetonius). Gaius suetonius Tranquillus (75160), commonly known simply as suetonius, was a Roman writer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suetonius

Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Page history ... Printable version Not logged in Log in Help Other languages: Esperanto Nederlands Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Redirected from Suetonius Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus ), commonly known simply as Suetonius , was a Roman writer Suetonius was an administrator working as a secretary to the emperor Hadrian . He is remembered chiefly as the author of "The Lives of the First Twelve Caesars" ( De vita Caesarum ), history of Roman leaders, which has been the source for many works on Roman history and is generally regarded as about as impartial as a historian of ancient times could be. It must, however, be remembered, that many of the biographies in it are of rulers who died before its author was born. Suetonius made one reference to "Chrestus," which may refer to "Christ." See Suetonius on Jesus Other works De Illustribus Grammaticis De Claris Rhetoribus De Viribus Illustris Edit this page Discuss this page Page history What links here ... Related changes Other languages: Esperanto Nederlands Main Page About Wikipedia ... Recent changes This page was last modified 22:59, 3 May 2004. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (see for details).

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Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Page history ... Printable version Not logged in Log in Help Other languages: Esperanto Nederlands Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Redirected from Suetonius Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus ), commonly known simply as Suetonius , was a Roman writer Suetonius was an administrator working as a secretary to the emperor Hadrian . He is remembered chiefly as the author of "The Lives of the First Twelve Caesars" ( De vita Caesarum ), history of Roman leaders, which has been the source for many works on Roman history and is generally regarded as about as impartial as a historian of ancient times could be. It must, however, be remembered, that many of the biographies in it are of rulers who died before its author was born. Suetonius made one reference to "Chrestus," which may refer to "Christ." See Suetonius on Jesus Other works De Illustribus Grammaticis De Claris Rhetoribus De Viribus Illustris Edit this page Discuss this page Page history What links here ... Related changes Other languages: Esperanto Nederlands Main Page About Wikipedia ... Recent changes This page was last modified 22:59, 3 May 2004. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (see for details).

15. Gaius Suetonius Paulinus - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Gaius suetonius Paulinus. (Redirected from suetonius Paullinus). Gaius suetonius Paullinus (flourished 1st century CE) was a Roman general. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suetonius_Paullinus

Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Page history ... Printable version Not logged in Log in Help Gaius Suetonius Paulinus (Redirected from Suetonius Paullinus Gaius Suetonius Paullinus (flourished 1st century CE) was a Roman general. He went to Mauretania with the rank of praetor in AD 42 to suppress a revolt and soon earned promotion to legatus legionis . He was the first Roman to cross the Atlas Mountains . In 59 he received command of the army in Roman Britain and became Governor general of the territories there. Paullinus acted vigorously in suppressing revolt, especially in Wales , but he was campaigning against the druids of Mona when Boudicca razed Camulodunum circa 60) and he had to race southwards. He could not reach Verulamium or Londinium , and both settlements suffered heavy damage. Paullinus advanced down Watling Street to choose a battlefield to his advantage. The two armies met for the Battle of Towcester at an unknown location, believed to lie in the Midlands near Manduessedum near the modern day town of Atherstone in Warwickshire . The discipline of the 14th legion sufficed to rout the numerically superior Britons. According to

16. Oxford World's Classics Magazine suetonius, Lives of the Caesars (on which I, Claudius is partly based) shows that there were similar obsessions almost two millennia ago. http://www.oup.co.uk/worldsclassics/magarchive/mag2/suetonius/

A certain politician's wallpaper, the extra-marital affairs of Ministers, the meaning of William Hague's baseball cap: articles of this ilk seem to take up column feet each year, and biography sections of bookshops get bigger every year. If you thought that analysing the private lives of public figures was a modern phenomenon, think again. Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars (on which I, Claudius is partly based) shows that there were similar obsessions almost two millennia ago. Catharine Edwards, translator of the Oxford World's Classics edition published this autumn, reports: Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars , starting with Julius Caesar and ending with the emperor Domitian, has always had its place as a fund of extraordinary tales of imperial vice - and, at times, of models of imperial virtue. Suetonius presents us with shocking accounts of Caligula's plan to make his horse consul and of Nero singing while Rome burned, as well as with edifying descriptions of Augustus' splendid redevelopment of the city of Rome and Titus' decision to put the state before his love for Berenice. Centuries later rulers might aspire to being hailed as another Augustus or Titus - and dread being labelled another Caligula or Nero.

17. OUP: Lives Of The Caesars: Suetonius Lives of the Caesars. suetonius. Translated with introduction and notes by Catharine Edwards, Department of Classics, University of http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-283271-9

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18. Emblematic Scenes In Suetonius' Vitellius Emblematic Scenes in suetonius Vitellius*. Why should suetonius have represented Vitellius, who reigned for so short a time, in such harshly negative terms? http://www.dur.ac.uk/Classics/histos/1998/burke.html

Emblematic Scenes in Suetonius' Vitellius John W. Burke (Kent State University) ... religatis post terga manibus, iniecto ceruicibus laqueo, ueste discissa seminudus in forum tractus est inter magna rerum uerborumque ludibria per totum uiae Sacrae spatium, reducto coma capite, ceu noxii solent, atque etiam mento mucrone gladii subrecto, ut uisendam praeberet faciem neue summitteret; quibusdam stercore et caeno incessentibus, aliis incendiarium et patinarium uociferantibus, parte uulgi etiam corporis uitia exprobrante; erat enim in eo enormis proceritas, facies rubida plerumque ex uinulentia, uenter obesus, alterum femur subdebile impulsu olim quadrigae, cum auriganti Gaio ministratorem exhiberet. tandem apud Gemonias minutissimis ictibus excarnificatus atque confectus est et inde unco tractus in Tiberim. ( Vit Suetonius' biography of Vitellius, a brief, but systematic, attack on that emperor's character and principate, culminates in the lurid scene quoted above, in which Vitellius is executed. Why should Suetonius have represented Vitellius, who reigned for so short a time, in such harshly negative terms? Partly, no doubt, because the basic tradition about Vitellius was established during the era of the Flavians, by whom, of course, he had been overthrown. The ancient source who most nearly approaches the almost uniformly negative picture provided by Suetonius is Flavius Josephus, and, at least in his case, for obvious reasons. But while the portrait offered by our other principal sources, Tacitus and Dio, is indeed decidedly unflattering and hostile, being largely based upon the same source-material as Suetonius', it is not without some attempt at equity (e.g. Tac.

19. LacusCurtius • Suetonius' Twelve Caesars suetonius The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. The Text on LacusCurtius. Background material on suetonius, the Lives of the Twelve Caesars, the manuscripts, etc. http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/1

mail: Bill Thayer Italiano Help Up Home Suetonius: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars The Text on LacusCurtius The Latin text is that of Maximilian Ihm in the Teubner edition of 1907, with cosmetic changes as printed in the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1913-1914. The English translation is by J. C. Rolfe, printed in the same edition. Both text and translation are in the public domain. As usual, I retyped the text rather than scanning it: not only to minimize errors prior to proofing, but as an opportunity for me to become intimately familiar with the work, an exercise which I heartily recommend. (Well-meaning attempts to get me to scan text, if successful, would merely turn me into some kind of machine: gambit declined.) In the table of contents below, all the Books are shown on blue backgrounds red backgrounds would indicate that my transcription was still not proofread. The header bar at the top of each webpage will remind you with the same color scheme. Should you spot an error, please do report it, of course. Further details on the technical aspects of the site layout follow the Table of Contents. Background material on Suetonius, the Lives of the Twelve Caesars, the manuscripts, etc. will appear here in the fullness of time, but as usual I'm not about to let that delay anything, preferring to get a good text online first.

20. Suetonius • Life Of Julius Caesar If you find a mistake though, please let me know! (link to next section) Augustus. suetonius, The Lives of the Caesars. The Life of Julius Caesar. http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/1

mail: Bill Thayer Latine Italiano Help Up Home This webpage reproduces one of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by C. Suetonius Tranquillus published in the Loeb Classical Library, the text of which is in the public domain. This page has been carefully proofread and I believe it to be free of errors. If you find a mistake though, please let me know! Augustus Suetonius, The Lives of the Caesars The Life of Julius Caesar In the course of his sixteenth year he lost his father. In the next consulate, having previously been nominated priest of Jupiter, he broke his engagement with Cossutia, a lady of only equestrian rank, but very wealthy, who had been betrothed to him before he assumed the gown of manhood, and married Cornelia, daughter of that Cinna who was four times consul, by whom he afterwards had a daughter Julia; and the dictator Sulla could by no means force him to put away his wife. Therefore besides being punished by the loss of his priesthood, his wife's dowry, and his family inheritances, Caesar was held to be one of the opposite party. He was accordingly forced to go into hiding, and though suffering from a severe attack of quartan ague, to change from one covert to another almost every night, and save himself from Sulla's detectives by bribes. But at last, through the good offices of the Vestal virgins and of his near kinsmen, Mamercus Aemilius and Aurelius Cotta, he obtained forgiveness. Everyone knows that when Sulla had long held out against the most devoted and eminent men of his party who interceded for Caesar, and they obstinately persisted, he at last gave way and cried, either by divine inspiration or a shrewd forecast: "Have your way and take him; only bear in mind that the man you are so eager to save will one day deal the death blow to the cause of the aristocracy, which you have joined with me in upholding; for in this Caesar there is more than one Marius."

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