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Suétone · Unknown

to him Gallia Transalpina and Cisalpina and Illyricum, with ten legions given for five years; the senate later added Gallia Comata. Suetonius Tranquillus explained this history most fully, from which we have plucked appropriate portions. Those things are held in the same words in Paulus Diaconus.
Book on Kings. To these you had added a most delightful poem which you condensed into an epitome from the three books of Suetonius which he gave On Kings with such elegance, that you alone seem to me to have attained what is contrary to nature, that brevity was not obscure. In these verses I recognized these things:
And Europe and Asia, the two greatest limbs of the earth:
To which Sallust doubtfully adds Libya,
Joined to Europe, when it could be called a third.
Ruled by many, whom fame obliterates: and whose
Barbarian names the Roman tongue does not hand down
Illibanum, and the Numidian Aselis, and the Parthian Vononem,
And Caranus, who gave names to the Pellaean kings,
And who taught the mages the vain mysteries of Nechepsis,
And who soon reigned without a name, Sesostris.
Book on the Institution of Offices. Which, however, Suetonius also confirms, placing diverse uses in the book which...