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The Twelve Caesars served as a model for the biographies of 2nd- and early 3rd-century emperors compiled by Marius Maximus. This collection, apparently entitled Caesares , does not survive, but it was a source for a later biographical collection, known as Historia Augusta , which now forms a kind of sequel to Suetonius' work.
The Twelve Caesars Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus ( Latin: [ˈɡaːiʊs sweːˈtoːniʊs traŋˈkᶣɪlːʊs] ), commonly referred to as Suetonius ( / s w ɪ ˈ t oʊ n i ə s / swih- TOH -nee-əs ; c. AD 69 – after AD 122), [ 2 ] was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire .
Church father Tertullian wrote: "We read the lives of the Cæsars: At Rome Nero was the first who stained with blood the rising faith" [17] Mary Ellen Snodgrass notes that Tertullian in this passage "used Suetonius as a source by quoting Lives of the Caesars as proof that Nero was the first Roman emperor to murder Christians", but cites not a specific passage in Suetonius's Lives as Tertullian ...
Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant, by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1859), adapts the phrase to describe gladiators greeting the emperor Vitellius. Avē Imperātor, moritūrī tē salūtant ("Hail, Emperor, those who are about to die salute you") is a well-known Latin phrase quoted in Suetonius, De vita Caesarum ("The Life of the Caesars", or "The Twelve Caesars"). [1]
Youth Is Wasted on the Young (The Twelve Caesars album), 1998; Youth Is Wasted on the Young (Scarlet Pleasure album), 2016 This page was last edited on 16 ...
Together with Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars, and Caesar's own works de Bello Gallico and de Bello Civili, the Life of Caesar is the main account of Julius Caesar's feats by ancient historians. Plutarch starts by telling of the audacity of Caesar and his refusal to dismiss Cinna's daughter, Cornelia. Other important parts are those containing ...
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Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, De Vita Caesarum (Lives of the Caesars, or The Twelve Caesars). Appianus Alexandrinus , Bellum Civile (The Civil War). Lucius Cassius Dio Cocceianus (Cassius Dio), Roman History. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849).