Frases de Suetónio
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Suetónio
Data de nascimento: 70 d.C.
Data de falecimento: 126
Outros nomes:Gaius Tranquillus Suetonius, Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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Caio Suetónio Tranquilo, foi um escritor latino.
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Citações Suetónio
„Dead! And so great an artist!“
— Sueton
Ch. 49
Suetonius represents this as Nero's exclamation when he had resolved to kill himself, but not as his last words.
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„Titus complained of the tax which Vespasian had imposed on the contents of the city urinals. Vespasian handed him a coin which had been part of the first day's proceeds: "Does it smell bad?" he asked. And when Titus said "No" he went on: "Yet it comes from urine."“
— Sueton
Ch. 23
Sometimes misquoted as Pecunia non olet, "Money doesn't smell".
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„To prevent Incitatus, his favourite horse, from being disturbed he always picketed the neighbourhood with troops on the day before the races, ordering them to enforce absolute silence. Incitatus owned a marble stable, an ivory stall, purple blankets, and a jewelled collar; also a house, a team of slaves, and furniture – to provide suitable entertainment for guests whom Gaius invited in its name. It is said that he even planned to award Incitatus a consulship.“
— Sueton
Ch. 55
„Because the Jews at Rome caused continuous disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he expelled them from the city.“
— Sueton
Ch. 25
Chrestus may be a mis-spelling of Christus, Christ.
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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."“
— Sueton
Ch. 87
„In the Pontic triumph one of the decorated wagons, instead of a stage-set representing scenes from the war, like the rest, carried a simple three-word inscription: I CAME, I SAW, I CONQUERED! This referred not to the events of the war [against Pontus], like the other inscriptions, but to the speed with which it had been won.“
— Sueton
Ch. 37
