Suetonius

[swi-toh-nee-uhs]

noun

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

Suetonius

/ 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)

Example Sentences

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.

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

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His biographer Suetonius, writing a few years after Tacitus, claimed Nero had “practiced every sort of obscenity,” from incest to murder.

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

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

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