Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee.
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- Suetonius
More Quotes By Suetonius
- Few of Caesar’s assassins outlived him by more than three years, or died in their beds.
- If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths...
- He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble.
[Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit,...
- The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
- A good shepherd shears his flock, not flays them.
[Lat., Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere.]
- At a banquet Caligula was suddenly seized with a fit of helpless laughter. The consuls reclining next to...
- As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [ Claudius ] expelled them...
- Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves:...
- Let the die be cast.
[Lat., Jacta alea esto; or, jacta esa alea.)
- When I am dead let the earth be dissolved in fire.
- Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous...
- Would that the Roman people had but one neck!
[Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!]
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