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  • As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [ Claudius ] expelled them [the Jews] from Rome

    Rome   Jew   Constant  
  • He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]

  • A good shepherd shears his flock, not flays them. [Lat., Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere.]

  • I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.

    Rome   Bricks   Found  
    Suetonius (1980). “The twelve Caesars”, Penguin Group USA
  • These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate.

  • If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you are a fool.

  • 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.

    Angel   Mirrors   Balance  
  • Again, during a sacrifice, the augur Spurinna warned Caesar that the danger threatening him would not come later than the Ides of March.

    Suetonius (1980). “The twelve Caesars”, Penguin Group USA
  • General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.

    Night   Add   Evening  
  • Few of Caesar's assassins outlived him by more than three years, or died in their beds.

    Years   Bed   Three  
  • Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee. -

    Latin   Hail   Thee  
  • The fox changes his skin but not his habits.

    Skins   Foxes   Habit  
    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, ("Vespasianus", 16), 1922.
  • Let the die be cast. [Lat., Jacta alea esto; or, jacta esa alea.)

    Fate   Casts   Dies  
  • At a banquet Caligula was suddenly seized with a fit of helpless laughter. The consuls reclining next to him asked if they might share in the imperial merriment. Caligula, wiping the tears from his eyes, managed to gasp, "You'll never guess! It suddenly occurred to me that I had only to give a single nod, and both your throats would be cut on the spot."

    Laughter   Eye   Cutting  
  • Would that the Roman people had but one neck! [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!]

    Rome   People   Necks  
  • When I am dead let the earth be dissolved in fire.

    Future   Fire   Earth  
  • Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.

    Christian   Men   Class  
    Suetonius (1997). “Suetonius: Lives of the Caesars, book V-VIII ; Lives of illustrious men”, Loeb Classical Library
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Suetonius

  • Born: 70
  • Died: 130
  • Occupation: Historian