The library of Suetonius

1. Letters Pliny the Younger 1 authority 1 citation

   The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

   preface.

   1 citation

   Several of the younger Pliny’s letters are addressed to Suetonius, with whom he lived in the closest friendship.

Each of these stands at a single passage, named once and not held by the library. The work that names it carries the anchor.

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

Critical remarks on Suetonius · Translation of Suetonius · Translation of Suetonius (1796)

3 works in the library quote Suetonius — 9 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

Gaius 7 citations · Hugo Grotius 1 citation · Tertullian 1 citation

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Suetonius is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. Institutes of Roman Law Gaius 7 neutral 7 citations · 12 passages

   ch. 33 · ch. 35 · de lege fvfia caninia. (2) · ch. 39 · ch. 101 · ch. 113 · ch. 116 · commentarivs qvartvs 2 passages anchored here

   and 1 more chapter

   ch. 121 3 passages anchored here

   Cited to support a computation of the number of dies juridici in a year.

   As in the time of Marcus Aurelius such days only amounted to 230 in a year (Suetonius, Octavianus, 32), this cause alone would make annus utilis equivalent to about 1½ ordinary years.

2. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 neutral 1 citation

   ch. 10

   Named work cited for a specific reported claim.

   and when Suetonius says, that Caligula was on the point of converting the power of a prince into that of a king;

3. De Anima Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation

   de anima

   Suetonius is explicitly named as reporting Nero's dreamlessness.

   But Suetonius too says that Nero, and Theopompus that Thrasymedes, never dreamed, save that Nero scarcely did, at his last end, after his terrors.