Word: suetonius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hued cliffs and luminous Blue Grotto, Italy's fabled Bay of Naples island of Capri owes its reputation less to its scenery than to two of its former inhabitants. One was the Emperor Tiberius, who retired some 1,900 years ago to a mountaintop villa from which, records Suetonius, "condemned persons, after long and exquisite tortures, used to be hurled, on his orders and in his presence, into the sea." The other was British Author Norman Douglas, whose bestselling South Wind (1917) painted a thinly disguised picture of Capri as a haunt of elegant wickedness. Douglas himself was asked...
...From Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus' Lives of the Britannic Poets. Translation by W. Wadlington Postchaise...
...Graves has on hand three projects, any one of which would be enough to tax the average writer: a novel about George Sand's love affair with Chopin; a translation of Lucan's History of the Civil War (between Caesar and Pompey): a translation of Roman Historian Suetonius' Twelve Caesars...