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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    daughter of L. Pifo, who was to fucceed hirrl in the Con- fiilfliip, and gave his ow^n daughter to Pompey; rejevStlng Servilius Caepio, to whom flie had been contradled, and by whofe means chiefly he had but a little before baffled Bibulus. After this new alliance, he began, upon any debates in the Senate, to alk Pompey^s opinion firfl:; whereas he ufed before to pay that compliment to M. Craflfus; and it was the ufual pra6tice with the Conful to obferve throughout the year the method of confulting the houfe which he had adopted the fhll of January. XXII. Being therefore now fupported by the interell of his father and fon-in-law, of all the provinces he made choice of Gaul, as mofl: likely to furnifh him with matter and occafion for triumphs. At firfl; indeed he received only Cifalpine Gaul, with the addition of Illyricum, by a bill of Vatinius to the people ; but foon after obtained by the fenate Gallia Comata ^ likewife; the houfe en- tertaining an apprehenfion, that if they Ihould with-hold this province, it would be conferred on him by the com- mons. * Gallia was anciently divided into the Tranfalpina^ or Ulterior^ and Cifalpma^ or Citerior^ with refpeft to Rome, The Citerior was properly a part of Italy, occupied by Gallic colonifts; having the Rubicon, the ancient boundary of Italy, on the fouth. It was alfo called Gallia Togata^ from the ufe of the Roman toga; the inhabitants of thofe parts being, after the focial war, admitted to the right of ci- tizens. The Gallia Tranfalpina^ or Ulterior^ was called Co- mata^ from the people wearing their hair long, which the Romans wore fliort; and the fouthern part of it, afterwards called NarbonenJiSy came to have the epithet Braccata, from the ufe of hraccce^ which were no part of the Roman drefs. Some writers fuppofe the braccc^ to have been breeches; but Aldus,