Suetonius

Also known as Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, Suetone Tranquile, Suétone

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, comúnmente conocido como Suetonius, fue un historiador romano que escribió durante la era imperial temprana del Imperio romano. Su obra más importante que ha sobrevivido es De vita Caesarum, comúnmente conocida en inglés como The Twelve Caesars, un conjunto de biografías de 12 gobernantes romanos sucesivos desde Julio César hasta Domiciano. Otras obras de Suetonius se referían a la vida cotidiana de Roma, la política, la oratoria y las vidas de escritores famosos, incluidos poetas, historiadores y gramáticos. Algunos de estos libros han sobrevivido parcialmente, pero muchos se han perdido.

Occupation: writer, historian, secretary, biographer
Position held: ab epistulis
Citizenship: Ancient Rome
Born: 70, 69
Died: 126, 140, 150

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Also known as Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, Suetone Tranquile, Suétone

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“Consecutusque cohortis ad Rubiconem flumen, qui provinciae eius finis erat, paulum constitit, ac reputans quantum moliretur, conversus ad proximos: "Etiam nunc," inquit, "regredi possumus; quod si ponticulum transierimus, omnia armis agenda erunt."”
— Caesar overtook his advanced guard at the river Rubicon, which formed the frontier between Gaul and Italy. Well aware how critical a decision confronted him, he turned to his staff, remarking: "We may still draw back but, once across that little bridge, we shall have to fight it out."
“Dein pluribus hostiis caesis, cum litare non posset, introiit curiam spreta religione Spurinnamque irridens et ut falsum arguens, quod sine ulla sua noxa Idus Martiae adessent; quanquam is venisse quidem eas diceret, sed non praeterisse.”
— Several victims were then sacrificed, and despite consistently unfavourable omens, he entered the House, deriding Spurinna as a false prophet. "The Ides of March have come," he said. "Yes, they have come," replied Spurinna, "but they have not yet gone."
“Exstat et sermo eius in senatu percivilis: "Siquidem locutus aliter fuerit, dabo operam ut rationem factorum meorum dictorumque reddam; si perseveraverit, in vicem eum odero."”
— A remarkably modest statement of his is recorded in the Proceedings of the Senate: "If So-and-so challenges me, I shall lay before you a careful account of what I have said and done; if he should continue, I shall reciprocate his dislike of me."
“Non temere in quemquam nisi crebris et minutis ictibus animadverti passus est, perpetuo notoque iam praecepto: "Ita feri ut se mori sentiat."”
— The method of execution he preferred was to inflict numerous small wounds; and his familiar order: "Make him feel that he is dying!" soon became proverbial.
“Cantante eo ne necessaria quidem causa excedere theatro licitum est. Itaque et enixae quaedam in spectaculis dicuntur et multi taedio audendi laudandique clausis oppidorum portis aut furtim desiluisse de muro aut morte simulata funere elati.”
— No one was allowed to leave the theatre during his recitals, however pressing the reason. We read of women in the audience giving birth, and of men being so bored with listening and applauding that they furtively dropped down from the wall at the rear, since the gates were kept barred, or shammed dead and were carried away for burial.
“Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within – for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster.”
— Gore Vidal, On Our Own Now (London, 1976), p. 72.

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