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    Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Latin: [ˈɡaːiʊs sweːˈtoːniʊs traŋˈkᶣɪlːʊs]), commonly referred to as Suetonius (/swɪˈtoʊniəs/ swih-TOH-nee-əs; c. AD 69 –...
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    He is not known to be related to the biographer Suetonius. Having served as praetor in 40 AD, Suetonius was appointed governor of Mauretania (modern northern...
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    5.23. Capes 1897, p. 71. Suetonius, Tiberius, 5. Suetonius, Tiberius 1. Suetonius, Tiberius 3. Levick 1999, p. 15. Suetonius, Tiberius 6. Southern 1998...
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    passage in Suetonius' Lives as Tertullian's source. Other authors explicitly add that Tertullian's words are a reference to the passage in Suetonius' Nero...
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    63.25. Plutarch, Galba 8. Suetonius, 47. Aurelius Victor, Epitome de Caesaribus 5 Suetonius, 48–49. Suetonius, 49. Suetonius, 50. "Philip Schaff: NPNF-211...
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    (2007). Suetonius, Vesp. 2 Morgan (2006), 170–173 Suetonius, Vesp., p. 2 Levick (1999) A History of Britain, Richard Dargie (2007), p. 20 Suetonius, Vesp...
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    133–137. Suetonius, Claudius 25. Suetonius, Claudius 12. Suetonius, Claudius 21. Pliny the Elder, Book IX, 14–15. Humphrey 1986, pp. 100–101. Suetonius, Claudius...
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     297–298. Suetonius, Caligula 16,2. Suetonius, Caligula 37. Suetonius, Caligula 38. Barrett 2015, p. 298. Wilkinson 2004, p. 10. Suetonius, Claudius 10...
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    (2003), p. 149 Suetonius, Life of Domitian 9 Suetonius, Life of Domitian 12.3 Suetonius, Life of Domitian 20 Jones (1992), p. 16 Suetonius, Life of Domitian...
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    (1992), p. 8 Suetonius, The Lives of Twelve Caesars, Life of Titus 2 Suetonius, The Lives of Twelve Caesars, Life of Titus 3 Suetonius, The Lives of...
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    questioned. Suetonius, 3.1. Greenhalgh 1975, p. 11. Morgan 2006, pp. 31–32. Suetonius Life of Galba Chapter 23 Suetonius Life of Galba Chapter 3 Suetonius, 4.1...
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    Sutherland 1984, pp. 272, 273 (n°79, 99). Suetonius. Life of Vitellius. 1. Suetonius. Life of Vitellius. 3, 2. Suetonius, Vitellius, 3.2; 4.1. Tacitus, Histories...
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    his troops, but nonetheless Suetonius now commanded an army of almost 10,000 men. At an unidentified location, Suetonius took a stand in a narrow passage...
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    penelope.uchicago.edu. Strauss 2015, p. 59. Suetonius, Julius 78 Plutarch, Caesar 61 Strauss 2015, p. 60. Suetonius, Julius 79.2 Strauss 2015, p. 61. Strauss...
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    a Latin phrase (iacta alea est [ˈjakta ˈaːlɛ.a ˈɛs̺t]) attributed by Suetonius to Julius Caesar on 10 January 49 BCE, as he led his army across the Rubicon...
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    reign. However, precisely dating the expulsion from Suetonius provides some challenges because Suetonius writes in a topical rather than chronological fashion...
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    Historicity of Jesus). Suetonius begins this section with Caesar's father's death when he himself was aged sixteen. Suetonius then narrates that period...
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    1–9 Suetonius, De vita Caesarum – Claudius v.44 and Nero vi.5.3, 28.2, 34.1–4 Tacitus, Annals XII.66; Cassius Dio, Roman History LXI.34; Suetonius, The...
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    the law on imperium and made armed conflict inevitable. Roman historian Suetonius depicts Caesar as undecided as he approached the river and attributes...
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    Cassius 55.10, Suetonius, Vita Augusti 65 Velleius Paterculus, 2.100 Dio Cassius 55.10 Suetonius, ibid. Suetonius, Life of Tiberius, 50. Suetonius, Life of...
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    The Annals. Hingley & Unwin 2006, pp. 42–43 Suetonius (1914). "Lives of the Caesars, Book VI: Nero". Suetonius (in Latin and English). Vol. 2. Translated...
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  • word was plainly visible, which, even when a woman weds, darkness hides. Suetonius tells the story of Nero's being the bride to a freedman named "Doryphorus"...
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  • generally includes believing that Suetonius was mistaken when referring to Livia's father as a Claudius Pulcher. Suetonius. "Tiberius". The Twelve Caesars...
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    by the soothsayer to "beware the Ides of March." The Roman biographer Suetonius identifies the "seer" as a haruspex named Spurinna. Caesar's assassination...
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    Kyle (2001) also cites Suetonius Claudius 34.2 and Dio 60.13.4 on this point. Suetonius Claudius 12 Suetonius Claudius 11 Suetonius Claudius 21 Translation...
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    Drusilla, only one month later (or according to Suetonius, on her wedding day). In the account given by Suetonius, the emperor would parade Milonia in front...
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    Letters. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (1914). "The Life of Pliny the Elder". In Page, T.E.; Rouse, William Henry Denham (eds.). Suetonius – The Lives of...
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  • Plutarch, Sulla 36–38. Suetonius, Julius 46. Suetonius, Julius 3 ; Appian, Civil Wars 1.107. Suetonius, Julius 55. Suetonius, Julius 4 . Plutarch (Caesar...
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    according to Suetonius, the place where Tiberius engaged in wild debauchery. Most modern historians regard these tales as sensationalized, but Suetonius' stories...
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    marry her. According to both Dio and Suetonius, this occurred during Piso and Orestilla's wedding celebrations. Suetonius claims that Caligula issued a proclamation...
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