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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

by Suetonius

De vita Caesarum, commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius, at that time Hadrian's personal secretary, and is the largest among his surviving writings. It was dedicated to a friend, the Praetorian prefect Gaius Septicius Clarus.

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English

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Latin

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121 AD

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Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, commonly known as Suetonius was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire. His most important surviving work is a set of biographies o...

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