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

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

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