Suetonius famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Few of Caesar's assassins outlived him by more than three years, or died in their beds.
-- Suetonius

#Years #Assassins #Bed
These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate.
-- Suetonius

#Reason #Communicate
Let the die be cast. [Lat., Jacta alea esto; or, jacta esa alea.)
-- Suetonius

#Fate #Casts
Would that the Roman people had but one neck! [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!]
-- Suetonius

#Rome #People #Necks
When I am dead let the earth be dissolved in fire.
-- Suetonius

#Future #Fire #Earth
He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]
-- Suetonius

#Cities #Bricks #Augustus
A good shepherd shears his flock, not flays them. [Lat., Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere.]
-- Suetonius

#Shepherds #Shears #Flocks
General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.
-- Suetonius

#Night #Evening #Add
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.
-- Suetonius

#Angel #Mirrors #Balance
Alea iacta est (The die is cast)
-- Suetonius

#Casts
As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [ Claudius ] expelled them [the Jews] from Rome
-- Suetonius

#Rome #Constant #Disturbance
Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition.
-- Suetonius

#Christian #Men #Class
The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
-- Suetonius

#Skins #Foxes #Habit
Again, during a sacrifice, the augur Spurinna warned Caesar that the danger threatening him would not come later than the Ides of March.
-- Suetonius

#Sacrifice #March #Threatening
Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee. -
-- Suetonius

#Thee #Hail #Salute
I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.
-- Suetonius

#Rome #Bricks #Found

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