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  • Suetonius, "Julius Caesar," 1.2. Augustus included the Vestals in all major dedications and ceremonies. The discovery of a "House ...
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  • Writing more than a century after the death of Augustus, Suetonius included among a series of wonders associated with his birth a story recounted ...
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  • of Pliny and Solinus; whilst the lost Prata of Suetonius, which can be partly pieced together from its quoted passages in Etymolgiae, seems to have inspired ...
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  • . According to Suetonius, it was at this point that Caesar said that ... * Suetonius, Robert Graves, and J.B. Rives. The Twelve Caesars. London ...
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  • credence to every slander recorded in Tacitus or Suetonius against the members of prior imperial dynasties. Literary texts, especially those of ...
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  • to the Egyptian rite (a letter quoted in Suetonius suggests this), although he was at the time married to Octavia, sister of his fellow triumvir ...
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  • Strabo, Livy (as far as we know), Lucan, Florus, Suetonius, Appian, and even Athenaeus—apparently knew nothing of the burning of the Museum, of the ...
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  • taken from classical authors such as Plutarch, Suetonius, the Bible, from contemporary events and from short story collections (Italian, French and ...
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  • include easily identifiable passages from Livy, Suetonius, Plutarch, and other classical historians, as well as medieval chroniclers, such as Villehardouin ...
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  • Robert Graves Suetonius, and Michael Grant, 2003, The twelve Caesars, (Penguin classics. London, UK: Penguin. ISBN 9780140449211), 220. ...
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  • whose title and arrangement were borrowed from Suetonius. It contains short biographical and literary notes on 135 Christian authors, from Saint Peter ...
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  • On the front of the building is a quote from Suetonius' Life of Augustus: "He found a city built of brick - left it built of marble." ...
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  • Suetonius reported a rumor that Caligula planned to appoint his favorite horse Incitatus to the Roman Senate. He ordered his soldiers to invade ...
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