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Bust of Tiberius. Suetonius opens his book on Tiberius by highlighting his ancestry as a member of the patrician Claudii, and recounts his birth father's career as a military officer both under Caesar and as a supporter of Lucius Antonius in his rebellion against Octavian. Upon the resumption of peace, Octavian took an interest in Livia, and ...
Suetonius is mainly remembered as the author of De Vita Caesarum—translated as The Life of the Caesars, although a more common English title is The Lives of the Twelve Caesars or simply The Twelve Caesars—his only extant work except for the brief biographies and other fragments noted below.
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 ...
Suetonius preserves several anecdotes of his profligate and arrogant character. [4] He was said to be so steeped in luxury that he bathed several times a day. Tiberius and Claudius both felt he was too dissolute to allow boys and young men to be entrusted to him. He referred to the great grammarian Varro as a "pig".
Tiberius declared that, “I am not worthy to live if Lentulus hates me as well.” [14] Lentulus died in 25 AD, leaving his enormous fortune to Tiberius. [ 15 ] Tacitus implied that this was a voluntary act; Suetonius , however, states that he committed suicide and was forced to leave his fortune to Tiberius.
Suetonius, Life of Tiberius (Loeb Classical Library English translation) Velleius Paterculus, Roman History Book II (Loeb Classical Library English translation) Suetonius, Life of Caligula (Loeb Classical Library translation) Suetonius, Life of Caligula(Alexander Thomson translation) Archived 12 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine "Germanicus ...
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]
Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Life of Caligula, Latin text with English translation; Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Life of Tiberius, Latin text with English translation; Tacitus, Annals, I–III, English translation; Senatus Consultum de Pisone ("The Senate's decree against Gnaeus Piso senior") Seneca the Younger, de Ira I ...