Lives of the Twelve Caesars, The
Suetonius
Number of quotes: 13
Book ID: 246 Page: 48
Section: 5D
At the height of the public grief a throng of foreigners went about lamenting each after the fashion of his country, above all the Jews, {2} who even flocked to the place for several successive nights.
Quote ID: 6201
Time Periods: ?
Book ID: 246 Page: 55
Section: 2E3,2E6
Laetorius further urged upon the Senators that he was the possessor and as it were the warden of the spot which the Deified Augustus first touched at his birth, and begged that he be pardoned for the sake of what might be called his own special God. Whereupon it was decreed that that part of his house should be consecrated.A small room like a pantry is shown to this day as the Emperor’s nursery in his grandfather’s country-house near Velitrae, and the opinion prevails in the neighborhood that he was also born there. No one ventures to enter this room except of necessity and after purification, since there is a conviction of long standing that those who approach it without ceremony are seized with shuddering and terror; and what is more, this has recently been shown to be true.
Quote ID: 6202
Time Periods: 0
Book ID: 246 Page: 78
Section: 4B
Considering it also of great importance to keep the people pure and unsullied by any taint of foreign or servile blood, he was most chary of conferring Roman citizenship and set a limit to manumission. When Tiberius requested citizenship for a Grecian dependent of his, Augustus wrote in reply that he would not grant it unless the man appeared in person and convinced him that he had reasonable grounds for the request. When Livia asked it for a Gaul from a tributary province, he refused, offering instead freedom from tribute, and declaring that he would more willingly suffer a loss to his privy purse than the prostitution of the honor of Roman citizenship.
Quote ID: 6203
Time Periods: 1
Book ID: 246 Page: 107
Section: 2E4
It was not till near the reign of Severus that the Romans began to divide their time into weeks, as we do, in imitation of the Jews.
Quote ID: 6204
Time Periods: 23
Book ID: 246 Page: 142
Section: 3B
He abolished foreign cults, especially the Egyptian and the Jewish rites, compelling all who were addicted to such superstitions to burn their religious vestments and all their paraphernalia. Those of the Jews who were of military age he assigned to provinces of less healthy climate, ostensibly to serve in the army. Others of the same race or of similar beliefs he banished from the city, on pain of slavery for life if they did not obey. He banished the astrologers as well, but pardoned such as begged for indulgence and promised to give up their art.Pastor John’s Note: Tiberius
Quote ID: 6205
Time Periods: 1
Book ID: 246 Page: 146
Section: 3B
Still more flagrant and brazen was another sort of infamy which he practiced, one that may scarce be told, much less believed. He taught children of the most tender years, whom he called his little fishes, to play between his legs while he was in his bath. Those which had not yet been weaned, but were strong and hearty, he set at fellatio, the sort of sport bet adapted to his inclination and age.Pastor John’s Notes: Good grief.
Quote ID: 6206
Time Periods: 1
Book ID: 246 Page: 146
Section: 3B
It is also said that one day during a sacrifice he was so smitten by the beauty of a boy who swung a censer that he was hardly able to wait till the rites were over before taking him aside and abusing him as well as his brother who was playing the flute; and that soon afterwards he had the legs of both of them broken because they were reproaching each other with the disgrace.Pastor John’s Notes: Poor boy.
Quote ID: 6207
Time Periods: 1
Book ID: 246 Page: 153
Section: 1B
“Obdurate wrench! too fierce, too fell to moveThe least kind yearnings of a mother’s love!
No Knight are you, as having no estate;
Will you hear all? Yours is an exile’s fate.
No more the happy Golden Age we see;
The Iron’s come, and sure to last with thee.
Quote ID: 6208
Time Periods: 1
Book ID: 246 Page: 226
Section: 3B
Since the Jews constantly made disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus {1}, Claudius expelled them from Rome.
Quote ID: 6209
Time Periods: 1
Book ID: 246 Page: 296
Section: 3B
Galba... was much inclined to unnatural desire, and in gratifying it preferred full-grown, strong men. They say that when Icelus, one of his old-times favorites, brought him the news in Spain of Nero’s death, he not only received him openly with the fondest kisses, but begged him to prepare himself without delay and took him privately aside.
Quote ID: 6210
Time Periods: 1
Book ID: 246 Page: 335
Section: 3B
the King of the Parthians...as death drew near, he said: “Woe’s me. Methinks I’m turning into a God.”
Quote ID: 6211
Time Periods: 1
Book ID: 246 Page: 342
Section: 3B
Having declared that he would accept the office of Pontifex Maximus for the purpose of keeping his hands unstained, he was true to his promise. For, after that he neither caused nor connived at the death of any man, although he sometimes had no lack of reasons for taking vengeance.
Quote ID: 6212
Time Periods: 1
Book ID: 246 Page: vii
Section: 1A
To our Roman authors the Christians of the 1st Century were a pitiable lot. And they give us never a clue as to whether a man Christ actually lived and was crucified, or whether he was a fiction Rome herself pieced together in an effort to create a religious tool by which further to unite the diverse peoples under her dominion.Page 250 In a list of Neros positive accomplishments, Suetonius remarks, rather casually, "Punishment was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition."
Footnote 2 Tacitus, in Annals XIII, 32, calls the Christian religion "a foreign and deadly superstition." Pliny in Letter 97 of Book 10 calls it "a depraved, wicked, and outrageous superstition." PJ NOTE: Not there.
Quote ID: 6200
Time Periods: 1
End of quotes