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Title: The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete
Author: Suetonius
Editor: Thomas Forester
Translator: M.D. Alexander Thomson
Release date: November 10, 2004 [eBook #6400]
Most recently updated: December 29, 2020
Language: English
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THE LIVES OF THE TWELVE CAESARS
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 T.Forester, Esq., A.M.
PREFACE
C. Suetonius Tranquillus was the son of a Roman knight who commanded a legion, on the side of Otho, at the battle which decided the fate of the empire in favour of Vitellius. From incidental notices in the following
History, we learn that he …