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Suetonius

Also known as Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, Suetone Tranquile, Suétone, Svetonio, Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaio Svetonio Tranquillo, Sueton, Sveton

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (), commonly referred to as Suetonius ( ; – after AD 122), was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire. His most important surviving work is De vita Caesarum, commonly known in English as The Twelve Caesars, a set of biographies of 12 successive Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian. Other works by Suetonius concerned the daily life of Rome, politics, oratory, and the lives of famous writers, including poets, historians, and grammarians. A few of these books have partially survived, but many have been lost.

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Caius Suetonius Tranquillus was a male writer, historian, secretary, and biographer from Ancient Rome. Born around 70, he lived during the Roman Empire and died in the Roman Empire, with dates of death recorded as 126, 140, or 0150-01-01. He wrote in Latin and held the position of ab epistulis. His notable work includes *The Twelve Caesars*, and his writings are classified under the genre of biography.

Suetonius has works in the collection of the National Gallery of Art. He is described in sources such as the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, and Pauly–Wissowa. His birth name is Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, and his praenomen is Gaius.

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Person · Open Library

Born: ca. 69
Died: ca. 122
Works: 543

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Lives of the Caesars 3. Tiberius
· 1914 · cited 23x
Oxford Classical Texts: C. Suetoni Tranquilli: De Vita Caesarum Libros VIII et De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus Librum
· 2016 · cited 17x
Lives of the Caesars 4. Gaius Caligula
· 1914 · cited 15x
Lives of the Caesars 6. Nero
· 1914 · cited 11x
Lives of Illustrious Men. Grammarians and Rhetoricians. Rhetoricians
· 1914 · cited 10x

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Quotes

“Consecutusque cohortis ad Rubiconem flumen, qui provinciae eius finis erat, paulum constitit, ac reputans quantum moliretur, conversus ad proximos: "Etiam nunc," inquit, "regredi possumus; quod si ponticulum transierimus, omnia armis agenda erunt."”
“Tunc Caesar: "Eatur," inquit, "quo deorum ostenta et inimicorum iniquitas vocat. Iacta alea est," inquit.”
“Pontico triumpho inter pompae fercula trium verborum praetulit titulum VENI·VIDI·VICI non acta belli significantem sicut ceteris, sed celeriter confecti notam.”
“Ne provincialibus quidem matrimoniis abstinuisse vel hoc disticho apparet iactato aeque a militibus per Gallicum triumphum:"Urbani, servate uxores: moechum calvom adducimus.Aurum in Gallia effutuisti, hic sumpsisti mutuum."”
“At ne cui dubium omnino sit et impudicitiae et adulteriorum flagrasse infamia, Curio pater quadam eum oratione omnium mulierum virum et omnium virorum mulierem appellat.”
“Et immolantem haruspex Spurinna monuit, caveret periculum, quod non ultra Martias Idus proferretur.”

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Key facts

Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.birth_name: Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.image: Suetonius etching (cropped).jpg
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.caption: 19th-century etching of Suetonius
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.birth_place: Hippo Regius, Africa (modern Annaba, Algeria)
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.death_date: After (aged 53)
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.occupation: Secretary, historian
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.genre: Biography
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.subject: History, biography, oratory
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.movement: Silver Age of Latin
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.notableworks: The Twelve Caesars

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Works in European collections

36 objects attributed to Suetonius, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

11 sections

Contents

Life
Works
The Twelve Caesars
Other works
Partly extant
Lost works
Editions
See also
Notes
References
External links

==Life== Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus was probably born about AD 69, a date deduced from his remarks describing himself as being about 57 years after Nero's death. His place of birth is disputed, but most scholars place it in Hippo Regius (the modern Annaba), at the time a small north African town in Numidia, in modern-day Algeria. It is certain that Suetonius came from a family of moderate social position, that his father, Suetonius Laetus, was a tribune belonging to the equestrian order (tribunus angusticlavius) in Legio XIII Gemina, and that Suetonius was educated when schools of rhetoric flourished in Rome.

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Suetonius