Suetonius

Family: Roman · Role: historian and narrator · First appears: Augustus 7

Augustus 7

• with Augustus (Suetonius presented Augustus with a statue.) “when a boy, I had a small bronze statue of him, with that name upon it in iron letters, nearly effaced by age, which I presented to the emperor, by whom it is now revered amongst the other tutelary deities in his chamber.”

Otho 10

• parent: Suetonius Lenis “My father, Suetonius Lenis, was in this battle, being at that time an angusticlavian tribune in the thirteenth legion.”

Grammarians 4

• mentor: Princeps (Princeps is identified as one of the grammarians whose lessons Suetonius recalls from his boyhood.) “I recollect that when I was a boy it was the custom of one of these, whose name was Princeps, to take alternate days for declaiming and disputing; and sometimes he would lecture in the morning, and declaim in the afternoon, when he had his pulpit removed.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.