Remarks on the Margins of Suetonius1

Book I: Crime and punishment

Book II: Just be
Book III: Absolute power corrupts absolutely
Book IV: Fall of reason
Book V: Useful fool
Book VI: Missed his vocation
Book VII: Nobody
Unsolvable dilemma of power
Failed imitation
Book VIII: Kindly client of soldiery
Good-natured nepote
& Unsuccessful moral purist

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1 De vita Caesarum, known as The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the
first emperors of the Roman Empire by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in 121, contains
the following biographies: Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho,
Vitellius, Vespasian,Titus, Domitian.