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Suétone · Unknown

six books. On the Roman year, one book. On the signs in books, one book. On Cicero's State, one book; he argues against Didymus. On proper names, forms of garments and footwear, and other things one puts on. On offensive words, or blasphemies, and the origin of each. On Rome and the customs and laws therein, two books. Genealogy of the Caesars; it contains the lives and successions of them from Julius to Domitian, eight books. A lineage of eminent Roman men.
Elogia of the work On the XII Caesars.
Accept the twelve Caesars, the noble princes, into whose reigns
Roman power long ago yielded with second consuls.
Their own monostichs mark each one,
Of whom throughout the full series Suetonius long ago
Completed the names, deeds, life, and death.
These things can indeed be found more diffusely in other historians, who write more fully of the atrocities and miserable ends of tyrants. If anyone wishes to review these things more diligently, let him read those which Trogus Pompeius, Josephus, Hegesippus, Quintus Curtius, Cornelius Tacitus, Titus Livius, Serenus, and Suetonius Tranquillus, and other historians, whom it would be long to enumerate, have encompassed in their histories.