The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius CaesarSuetonius
History
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar
Suetonius
Emperors -- Rome -- Biography -- Early works to 1800; Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.
[98] Men' me servasse, ut essent qui me perderent?
[99] The Bulla, generally made of gold, was a hollow globe, which boys
wore upon their breast, pendant from a string or ribbon put round the
neck. The sons of freedmen and poor citizens used globes of leather.
[100] Josephus frequently mentions the benefits conferred on his
countrymen by Julius Caesar. Antiq. Jud. xiv. 14, 15, 16.
[101] Appian informs us that it was burnt by the people in their fury,
B. c. xi. p. 521.
[102] Suetonius particularly refers to the conspirators, who perished at
the battle of Philippi, or in the three years which intervened. The
survivors were included in the reconciliation of Augustus, Antony, and
Pompey, A.U.C. 715.
[103] Suetonius alludes to Brutus and Cassius, of whom this is related
by Plutarch and Dio.
[104] For observations on Dr. Thomson's Essays appended to Suetonius's
History of Julius Caesar, and the succeeding Emperors, see the Preface to
this volume.
[105] He who has a devoted admiration of Cicero, may be sure that he has
made no slight proficiency himself.
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