Suetonius
Americannoun
noun
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Suetonius recorded that Julius Caesar was “somewhat overnice in the care of his person,” and Elizabethan courtiers sported particolored slashed sleeves, but the dandy is a modern, urban phenomenon.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026
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 • Jun. 20, 2023
During a visit to Africa, Vespasian was hit by rioters with turnips, according to the Roman historian Suetonius.
From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2022
Roman writers such as Pliny, Tacitus and Suetonius labeled Christianity not a religio but rather a superstitio, or a "superstition," a term usually applied to non-Roman, foreign practices.
From Salon • Jan. 23, 2021
Suetonius in his life of Caligula relates that when the emperor’s body was left half burned and unburied, ghosts filled the palace and garden.
From The Grateful Dead The History of a Folk Story by Gerould, Gordon Hall
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