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C. Suvetonii Tranquilli De XII Caesaribus libri VIII. Isaacus Casaubonus iterum recensuit. Accessit ejusdem Animadversionum appendicula. Additi etiam sunt Suetonii libelli De illustribus grammaticis
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ON SUETONIUS
AND HIS WRITINGS,
testimonies of ancient authors and certain fragments.
Book 4, on Caligula, concerning the bridge at Baiae.
Suetonius's grandfather. I WAS HEARING my grandfather telling as a boy that the reason for the work was betrayed by the inner courtiers: that the mathematician Thrasyllus, when Tiberius was anxious about his successor and more inclined toward his true grandson, had asserted that Gaius was no more likely to become emperor than he was to ride horses across the Bay of Baiae.
Book 7, on Otho, concerning the battle at Bedriacum.
Father. My father, Suetonius Lenis, participated in this war as a military tribune of the thirteenth legion. He was accustomed to relate soon after, etc.
Book 8, on Domitian, concerning the Jewish tax.
Times of youth. I remember that I was present as a youth when a ninety-year-old man was inspected by a procurator in a very crowded council to see whether he had been circumcised.
Book 6, on the end of Nero.
Finally, when after twenty years, as I was
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