The lives of the first twelve Cæsars / translated from the Latin of C. Suetonius Tranquillus: with annotations, and a review of the government and literature of the different periods. By Alexander Thomson, M.D.

  • Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122.
Date:
1796
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Credit: The lives of the first twelve Cæsars / translated from the Latin of C. Suetonius Tranquillus: with annotations, and a review of the government and literature of the different periods. By Alexander Thomson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in the capacitor of a judge, he treated as murderers all thofe who, in the late profcription, had received money- out of the treafury, for bringing in the heads of Roman citizens, though they had been exprefsly abfoived from punihiment by fubfequent laws. XIT. He likewife procured a perfon to bring an im- peachment of treafon againfl C. Rabirius, by whofe af- fiftance the Senate had, a few years before, retrained the feditious attempts of L. Saturninus the Tribune ; and be- ing drawn by lot one of the judges for his trial, he difeo- vered fo ftrong a dehre to convidd him, that upon his ap- pealing to the people, no circumilance availed him'fo much as the extraordinary bitternefs of his judge, XIII. Having renounced all hope of obtaining the pro- vince of ^gypt, he ftood candidate for the office of High-prieft, in the purfuit of which objedl, he had re- courfe to the' utmoft profufion of bribery. Refledling, on this occafion, on the greatnefs of the debts he had contradled, he is reported to have faid to Iiis mother, when file kiffied him at his going out in the morning to the elec- tion, “ I lhall never come home again, unlefs I am eledl- ed high-prieft.” In effeci, he fo much baffled two com- petitors of the moft powerful intereft,_and greatly fupe- rior to him both in age and dignity, that he had more votes in their own tiibes, than they both had in all toge- ther. XIV. After he had been chofen Prsetor, the confpi- racy of Catiline was difeovered, and while every other member of the Senate inclined to infiidl: capital punifh- ment on the delinquents, he alone advifed to confifeate their eftates, and commit their perfons to feparate pri- , ■ Tons