Word: suetonius
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Many Frenchmen have written about Mirabeau?notably Louis Barthou whom Author Jouvenel, generous, believes "almost conclusive." Orderly, perceptively, amusedly, with a good eye for a subject's public-private proportions, Author Jouvenel renders this portrait as a biography in the tradition, though not the manner, of Plutarch, Suetonius, Maurois...
...other than literary lions, are keeping, the projected revellers tightly strapped to the stake. The materials for Bacchanalia cannot be obtained in sufficient amount, and the police would not allow Saturnalia. Before the destruction finally comes, then, the authorities must adopt a more liberal attitude toward orgies. Suetonius himself could not tell a good story on Pickwick Pale alone...
Albert Andrew Howard and Carl Newell Jackson: Index Verborum C. Svetoni Tranqvilli. An index to the works of Suetonius, a Latin writer of the second century...