THE LIVES OF THE TWELVE CAESARS
Produced by Tapio Riikonen and David Widger
By
C. Suetonius Tranquillus;
To which are added,
HIS LIVES OF THE GRAMMARIANS, RHETORICIANS, AND POETS.
The Translation of
Alexander Thomson, M.D.
revised and corrected by
er, Esq., A.M.
TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS DRUSUS CAESAR. []
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I. 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 father-in-law. The following verse, however, was immediately in every one's mouth:
Tois eutychousi kai primaena paidia.
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 prodi
Gaius Suetonius : De vita Caesarum [Lives of the Caesars]
Gaius Suetonius: De vita Caesarum [Lives of the Caesars] () Remy Poignault (CELIS, Université de Clermont-Ferrand II) Genre: Biography (literary). Country: Roman Empire. The Lives of the Caesars establishes Suetonius literary profile as a biographer: it is possible to discern, according to Leo (), an influence coming from the tradition of Alexandrian biography, which favored a precise style that was devoted to men of letters, and was opposite to the character-centered biography of the Peripatetics (the philosophical biography to which Plutarch would be the heir). Matters, nonetheless, are not so clear-cut, and the third-century BC peripatetic Satyrus’ Life of Euripides discovered since Leo’s assessment shows that Alexandrian biography did evolve in the centuries prior to Suetonius. Suetonius also borrows from the Roman tradition of funeral oration, which centered on the public activities of the deceased and his moral qualities, and likewise followed an arrangement of the deceased person’s activities per species (with Cornelius Nepos, prior to Suetonius, having opened the way at Rome), and from the tradition of narrative
Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars, Volume I: Julius. Augustus. Tiberius. Gaius Caligula
Suetonius (C. Suetonius Tranquillus, born ca. 70 CE), son of a military tribune, was at first an advocate and a teacher of rhetoric, but later became the emperor Hadrian's private secretary, – He dedicated to C. Septicius Clarus, prefect of the praetorian guard, his Lives of the Caesars. After the dismissal of both men for some breach of court etiquette, Suetonius apparently retired and probably continued his writing. His other works, many known by title, are now lost except for part of the Lives of Illustrious Men (of letters).
Friend of Pliny the Younger, Suetonius was a studious and careful collector of facts, so that the extant lives of the emperors (including Julius Caesar the dictator) to Domitian are invaluable. His plan in Lives of the Caesars is: the emperor's family and early years; public and private life; death. We find many anecdotes, much gossip of the imperial court, and various details of character and personal appearance. Suetonius's account of Nero's death is justly famous.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Suetonius is in two volum
The Lives Of The First Twelve Cæsars, Translated From The Latin Of C. Suetonius Tranquillus: With Annotations, And A Review Of The Government And Literature Of The Different Periods. By Alexander Thomson, M.D.
Suetonius
RA Collection: Book
Record number
06/
Author
Suetonius
Uniform Title
[De Vita Caesarum., English., Thomson., ]
Imprint
London;: Printed For G. G. And J. Robinson, Petrnoster-Row.,
Physical Description
viii, p.; mm. (Octavo.)
General Note
Some copies are catalogued as containing portraits, but none is present in the Royal Academy's copy.
Contents
[T.p.] - Preface - Index To the History and Review - Index To Writers and some other Persons, particularly mentioned in the Review - [Text].
References
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Summary Note
Suetonius's De Vita Caesarum was probably written in the early 2nd century. It consists of anecdotal biographies of Julius Caesar (d. 44 B.C.), Octavius Augustus, Tiberius, Caius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus and Domitian (d. 96). Here the translation of each biography is followed by a short historical essay.
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