Suetonius

American  

[swi-toh-nee-uhs] / swɪˈtoʊ ni əs /

noun

1. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, a.d. 75–150, Roman historian.

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Suetonius British  

/ swiːˈtəʊnɪəs /

noun

1. full name Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. 75–150 _ad , Roman biographer and historian, whose chief works were Concerning Illustrious Men and The Lives of the Caesars (from Julius Caesar to Domitian)

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Example Sentences

The ancients believed that those who loved too much were possessed by gods; Suetonius wrote that Caligula, who believed he was a god, once ordered his troops to fill their helmets with seashells, the “spoils of the ocean.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Suetonius detailed Emperor Domitan’s nighttime events, highlighting the grotesqueness of gladiatrices fighting in the shadows.

From Salon

From Suetonius’ early-first-century writing to Cassius Dio’s in the second century, the few snippets of historical texts illuminating the gladiatrix share a unifying theme: social disgrace.

From Salon

Suetonius wrote that he cried out, “Qualis artifex pereo!”

From Scientific American

The hall’s eventual ruins, which were later attested to as a latrine by the historian Suetonius, are located near and around the square.

From Washington Times