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Suétone · Unknown

There are books on grammarians and rhetoricians.
I shall arrange the ecclesiastical writers in order: and what he did in enumerating famous men of letters, I shall do for our own.
Suetonius Tranquillus, in the life of Lucan which has not yet been printed, says that Lucan, amid the applause of his equals, with great success and favor, recited a poem he had composed, and to show how much younger he was than Virgil when he touched upon poetry, he said in an exultant manner, How much remains for me to reach the Gnat referring to Virgil's poem, the Culex?
Uncertain. Licinius Macer, and later Fenestella, wrote that the Roman year consisted of twelve months from the very beginning. But more credit should be given to Junius Gracchanus, Fulvius Varro, Suetonius, and others, who thought it consisted of ten months, as it was then among the Albans, from whom the Romans originated.
Suetonius Tranquillus writes that the same Bassus was placed by Mark Antony over the Oriental provinces, and that the Parthians invading Syria were put to flight by him in three battles, and that he was the first of all...