The Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius

Author:Suetonius [Suetonius]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D., Emperors -- Rome -- Biography -- Early works to 1800
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2019-10-25T21:06:16+00:00

Yet he gave no slight attention to liberal studies from his earliest youth, and even published frequent specimens of his attainments in each line. But even so he could not attain any public position or inspire more favourable hope of his future.

His mother Antonia often called him “a monster of a man, not finished but merely begun by Dame Nature;” and if she accused anyone of dullness, she used to say that he was “a bigger fool than her son Claudius.” His grandmother Augusta always treated him with the utmost contempt, very rarely speaking to him; and when she admonished him, she did so in short, harsh letters, or through messengers. When his sister Livilla heard that he would one day be emperor, she openly and loudly prayed that the Roman people might be spared so cruel and undeserved a fortune. Finally to make it clearer what opinions, favourable and otherwise, his great uncle Augustus had of him, I have appended extracts from his own letters:

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