Word: suetonius
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...confidential messages from his wife's maid, and, above all, Caesar's private papers. Suppose, further, that these documents were arranged like the evidence in a murder trial to show who was guilty and why. How would the result compare with the accounts given by Shakespeare and Suetonius...
...Louis B. Mayer. She was the screen's first best-dressed woman, and for years its official sophisticated society dame. In those years, without even trying, she salted down an incredible knowledge of Hollywood's strange ways & means. She can tell off-the-record stories that make Suetonius look like a cub from the Christian Science Monitor. She even knew what the inside of Garbo's dressing room looked like ("the black hole of Calcutta"). Studio publicity men, hard up for a story, always knew where to get it: go out and latch a siphon...
...Julius Caesar's officers and a gifted mother, he was an impenetrable man with a powerful but slow-moving mind, a love of tranquil study. As a military commander he distinguished himself in the field, particularly against Germanic tribes in Gaul. According to Suetonius, the Senate erected a triumphal arch to Tiberius...
...light-fingered romancer, Author Graves has dug carefully into a mine of authorities (Suetonius, Tacitus, Dio Cassius, Josephus, scores of others) for the outline and main incidents of his story. His good and scholarly friend Aircraftman T. E. Shaw (T. E. Lawrence) scanned the narrative for anachronisms, found none. Though I, Claudius abounds in murderous incidents, scandalous anecdotes. Author Graves can in almost every case quote classical scripture as his authority. Says he: "There is no main incident in the book...
...Readings in Pliny, Tacitus, and Suetonius," Professor E. K. Rand, Sever...