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Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Classical Latin: [ˈɡa:jjʊs sʊ.e:'to:ni.ʊs traŋˈkᶣɪllʊs]),[citation needed] commonly known as Suetonius (/swɪˈtoʊniəs/; c. 69 – after 122 AD), was a Roman historian belonging to the equestrian order who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire.

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Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee. -

Caesar, Die, Hail, Latin, Salute, Thee

General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.

Add, Evening, Lives, Night

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

Cervicem, Lat, Necks, People, Roman, Rome

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

Bricks, Built, Clothed, Found, Rome

These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate.

Communicate, Friendship, Hesitated, Reason, Things

The fox changes his skin but not his habits.

Fox, Foxes, Habit, Habits, Skin, Skins

Let the die be cast. [Lat. , Jacta alea esto; or, jacta esa alea. )

Cast, Casts, Dies, Esto, Fate, Jacta

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.

Age, Beings, Fool, Gods, Know, Made Up Stories

When I am dead let the earth be dissolved in fire.

Dead, Dissolved, Earth, Fire, Future, Let

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

Augur, Come, Danger, March, Sacrifice, Threatening

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

Bed, Beds, Died, Outlived, Three, Years

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, Balance, Hold, Ignore, Legend, Mirrors

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. "

Cutting, Eye, Fit, Give, Laughter, Spot

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

Rome, Jew, Constant, Instigation, Chrestus, Claudius

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

Boni, Flocks, Lat, Shears, Shepherd, Shepherds

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

Christian, Class, Men, Mischievous, Punishment

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

Augustus Caesar, Bricks, Built, Cities, Lat, Mamoream