4 When his mother was recalled from banishment and reinstated, he became so prominent through her influence that it leaked out that Messalina, wife of Claudius, had sent emissaries to strangle him as he was taking his noonday nap, regarding him as a rival of Britannicus.

146 with the good start to, and various positive aspects of, his principate. It is believed to be from the Bellerophon, a lost play of Euripides. Yet he could not either then or ever afterwards endure the stings of conscience, though soldiers, senate and people tried to hearten him with their congratulations; for he often owned that he was hounded by his mother's ghost and by the whips and blazing torches of the Furies. -  Chapters 40-50 deal with his death and funeral. Seine Kaiserviten werden von der modernen Forschung als eine wichtige Quelle für die frühe Kaiserzeit angesehen, in denen er auch durchaus wichtige Informationen vermittelte.

He despised all religious cults, except that of the Syrian Goddess (Atagartis), ultimately showing his contempt for her too, by urinating on her sacred image, after becoming captivated by a different superstition, the sole one to which he persisted in clinging, embodied in a statuette of a girl.

 p167 of the armies and the governors of the provinces, on the ground that they were all united in a conspiracy against him; to massacre all the exiles everywhere and all men of Gallic birth in the city: the former, to prevent them from joining the rebels; the latter, as sharing and abetting the designs of their countrymen; to turn over the Gallic provinces to his armies to ravage; to poison the entire senate at banquets; to set fire to the city, first letting the wild beasts loose, that it might be harder for the people to protect themselves. 2 He attempted the life of Britannicus by poison, not less from jealousy of his voice (for it was more agreeable than his own) than from fear that he might sometime win a higher place than himself in the people's regard because of the memory of his father. 55 These people had no rating on the census list and their contribution took this form.

2 After they had attained seven consulships, a triumph, and two censorships, and were enrolled among the patricians, they all continued to use the same surname.

49 According to Suetonius, Nero was condemned to die by the Senate. He also prepared for an expedition to the Caspian Gates, after enrolling a new legion of raw recruits of Italian birth, each •six feet tall,53 which he called the "phalanx of Alexander the Great.". Nero also showed a significant interest in painting and sculpture.

 p163 suspicion of actually rejoicing in it, because it gave him an excuse for pillaging those wealthy provinces according to the laws of war. Durch seinen Förderer Septicius Clarus übernahm Sueton um 121 das Amt ab epistulis, die Leitung der Kanzlei des Kaisers. 47

The Loeb Classical Library edition of Suetonius is in two volumes.

But again altering his purpose, he looked for some quiet spot where he could hide, and gather his wits. Diese wurde nach Meinung der meisten Wissenschaftler Ende des 4./Anfang des 5. 2 Another manifest indication of Nero's future unhappiness occurred on the day of his purification;14 for when Gaius Caesar was asked by his sister to give the child whatever name he liked, he looked at his uncle Claudius, who later became emperor and adopted Nero, and said that he gave him his name. 139 Nothing in his uncle Gaius so excited his envy and admiration as the fact that he had in so short a time run through the vast wealth which Tiberius had left him. When the palace, decorated in this lavish style, was complete, Nero dedicated the building, condescending to say by way of approval that he was at last beginning to live like a human being. Für die modernen Historiker liefert er mit seinen Schriften eine wertvolle Informationsquelle über das Leben römischer Gelehrter sowie der ersten römischen Kaiser, wenngleich seine Angaben teils mit Vorsicht zu behandeln sind, da Sueton vieles aus seinen Quellen allzu unkritisch übernahm. Worried by this, and learning from the astrologer Balbillus that kings usually averted such omens by the death of some distinguished man, thus turning them from themselves upon the heads of the nobles, he resolved on the death of all the eminent men of the State; but the more firmly, and with some semblance of justice, after the discovery of two conspiracies. Instead of to their landlords.

He then had Lucusta supply him with a poisonous substance which he placed in a golden box, and crossed to the Servilian Gardens where he tried to persuade the Guards officers to flee with him, his most loyal freedmen having been sent ahead to Ostia to ready the fleet.

The book was dedicated to his friend Gaius Septicius Clarus, a prefect of the Praetorian Guard in 119. And on his travels in Greece he dared not participate in the Eleusinian mysteries, since before the ceremony the herald warns the impious and wicked to depart.  p113 wills it was provided that the first two leaves should be presented to the signatories48 with only the name of the testator written upon them, and that no one who wrote a will for another should put down a legacy for himself; further, that clients should pay a fixed and reasonable fee for the services of their advocates,49 but nothing at all for benches, which were to be furnished free of charge by the public treasury; finally as regarded the pleading of cases, that those connected with the treasury should be transferred to the Forum50 and a board of arbiters, and that any appeal from the juries should be made to the senate.