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The Twelve Caesars
Suetonius
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 121 CE
- Originally in
- Originally in Latin
- Pages
- Pages 400
Domitian, master of the Roman world, spends his afternoons shut in a room catching flies and stabbing them one at a time with a sharpened pen. Suetonius had the run of the imperial archives under Hadrian, and he had read the private letters, down to Augustus's crabbed spelling and the gossip of household slaves, so he can tell you what the twelve Caesars were like in a room.
found it of brick, but left it of marble
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