Et immolantem haruspex Spurinna monuit, caveret periculum, quod non ultra Martias Idus proferretur. - Suetonius

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Et immolantem haruspex Spurinna monuit, caveret periculum, quod non ultra Martias Idus proferretur.

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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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Some characteristic expressions he used rather frequently in everyday speech can be seen in letters in his own hand, in which he sometimes writes, when he wants to say that certain men will never pay: "they'll pay on the Greek Kalends." And when he wants to encourage his addressee to put up with present circumstances whatever they are, he says: "Let us be satisfied with the Cato we have."

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