C. Suvetonii Tranquilli De XII Caesaribus libri VIII. Isaacus Casaubonus iterum recensuit. Accessit ejusdem Animadversionum appendicula. Additi etiam sunt Suetonii libelli De illustribus grammaticis

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.

I know that most writers have been silent about the minor tyrants, or have passed over them briefly. For Suetonius Tranquillus, a most emended and candid writer, was silent about Antonius and Vindex, content with the fact that he had touched upon them cursorily.

And we do not wonder about Suetonius, for whom it was customary to love brevity.

And indeed, it was my intention, not to imitate the Sallusts, Livys, Tacituses, Trogi, and all the most eloquent men in the life of princes and the recounting of times, but Marius Maximus, Suetonius Tranquillus, Fabius Marcellinus, Gargilius Martialis, Julius Capitolinus, Aelius Lampridius, and the others who have handed down these and such things to memory not so much eloquently as truly.