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These innovations in the customs and principles of our forefathers do not please us nor seem proper.

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Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (c. 69–after 122 AD) was a Roman historian. Among his surviving works are some thumbnail sketches of the lives of Roman grammarians, rhetoricians and poets, but he is best known for his De Vita Caesarum, often known in English as The Twelve Caesars.

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Native Name: Caius Suetonius Tranquillus

Alternative Names: Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus • Suetone Tranquile • Suétone • Svetonio • Gaio Svetonio Tranquillo • Sueton • Sveton • C. Suetonius Tranquillus • Suetone • Tranquillus Suetonius

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Non temere in quemquam nisi crebris et minutis ictibus animadverti passus est, perpetuo notoque iam praecepto: "Ita feri ut se mori sentiat."

Atque ita tribus et viginti plagis confossus est uno modo ad primum ictum gemitu sine voce edito, etsi tradiderunt quidam Marco Bruto irruenti dixisse: και συ τέκνον.

Maxime tamen curavit notitiam historiae fabularis usque ad ineptias atque derisum; nam et grammaticos, quod genus hominum praecipue, ut diximus, appetebat, eius modi fere quaestionibus experiebatur: "Quae mater Hecubae, quod Achilli nomen inter virgines fuisset, quid Sirenes cantare sint solitae."

These innovations in the customs and principles of our forefathers do not please us nor seem proper. - Suetonius

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