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<p> Roman historian; practised as an advocate in Rome in the reign of Trajan; was a friend of the [[Younger]] Pliny, became private secretary to Hadrian, but was deprived of this post through an indiscretion; wrote several works, and of those extant the chief is the "Lives of the Twelve Cæsars," beginning with [[Julius]] [[Cæsar]] and ending with Domitian, a work which relates a great number of anecdotes illustrating the characters of the emperors; <i> b </i> . A.D. 70. </p>

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<ref name="term_80140"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/suetonius,+tranquillus Tranquillus Suetonius from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref>
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