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Tranquillus Suetonius

Tranquillus Suetonius (c.69 - after 122), full name Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus was a Roman historian and writer. He practised as an advocate in Rome in the reign of Trajan. He was a friend of the Younger Pliny, became private secretary to the emperor Hadrian, but was deprived of this post through an indiscretion. He wrote several books, but chiefly remembered for "De vita Caesarum" (The lives of the First Twelve Caesars". The "Lives of the Twelve Cæsars" is the chief of those extant beginning with Julius Cæsar and ending with Domitian, a work which relates a great number of anecdotes illustrating the characters of the emperors.

Wisdom & Quotes

  • Nero's mother turned him from the study of philosophy, warning that it was contrary to the needs of one destined to rule.
- Nero, in Lives of the Caesars

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