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Suetonius, Tranquillus

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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Roman historian; practised as an advocate in Rome in the reign of Trajan; was a friend of the Younger Pliny, became private secretary to Hadrian, but was deprived of this post through an indiscretion; wrote several works, and of those extant the chief is the "Lives of the Twelve Cæsars," beginning with Julius Cæsar and ending with Domitian, a work which relates a great number of anecdotes illustrating the characters of the emperors; b . A.D. 70.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Suetonius, Tranquillus'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​s/suetonius-tranquillus.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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