No one was allowed to leave the theatre during his recitals, however pressing the reason. We read of women in the audience giving birth, and of men b… - Suetonius

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No one was allowed to leave the theatre during his recitals, however pressing the reason. We read of women in the audience giving birth, and of men being so bored with listening and applauding that they furtively dropped down from the wall at the rear, since the gates were kept barred, or shammed dead and were carried away for burial.

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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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Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within – for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster.

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