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Roman historian (c. AD 69 – after AD 122)

This article is about the Roman historian.

C suetonius tranquillus biography of abraham lincoln

For the Roman general who put down the rebellion of Boudica, see Gaius Suetonius Paulinus.

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Latin:[ˈɡaːiʊssweːˈtoːniʊstraŋˈkᶣɪlːʊs]), commonly referred to as Suetonius (swih-TOH-nee-əs; c. AD 69 – after AD 122),^[2] was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire.

His most important surviving work is De vita Caesarum, commonly known in English as The Twelve Caesars, a set of biographies of 12 successive Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian. Other works by Suetonius concerned the daily life of Rome, politics, oratory, and the lives of famous writers, including poets, historians, and grammarians.

A few of these books have partially survived, but many have been lost.

Life

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus was probably born about AD 69, a date deduced from his remarks describing hims