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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    mons. Elated now with his fuccefs, he could not refrain from boafting a few days after in a full houfe, that he had, in fpite of his enemies, and to their great mortifica- tion, obtained all he defired, and Ihould for the future treat them with what indignity he pleafed. One of the members fmartly obferving, ‘‘ That will not be very eafy for a woman to do,’' he jocofely replied, Semiramis has formerly reigned in Affyiia, and thc'Amazons been pofTefTed of a great part of Afia.” XXIII., When the term of his Confulfliip had expired, upon a motion being made in the Senate by C. Memmius and L. Domitius the Praetors, refpedling the tranfadlions of the year pad, he offered to refer himfelf to the houfe ; but they declining the bufinefs, after three days fpent in vain altercation, he fet out for his province. Immedi- ately, however, his Quseftor was impeached for feveral mifdemcanors, by way of prelude to the future condem- nation of Casfar. An accufation was foon after prefer- red againfl himfelf, by L. Antiftius, Tribune of the com- mons; but by making an appeal to the reft of the body, he prevailed, as being abfent in the ferviee of his coun- try, to have the profecution fufpended.. To fecure him- felf therefore for the time to come, he was particularly careful to oblige the magiftrates of every year, and to affift none of the candidates with his intereft, nor fuffer any to be advanced to any poft whatever, who would not pofitively undertake to defend him in his abfence: for Aldus, in a fhort difquifition on the fubjedi, affirms that they were a kind of upper drefs. And this opinion feems to be countenanced by the name hraccan being applied by the modern Celtic nations, the defcendents of the Gallic Celts, to fignify their upper garment, or plaid.