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"Ignore the racket made by these savages. There are more women than men in their ranks. It's coming home to ROMA."

- Gaius Suetonius Gigainus

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2021-07-11

Yes, historians like Suetonius described Augustus this way.

Nearly the entire northern third of Italy north of Etruscans used to be Celtic, inhabited by peoples like the Boii before the Romans conquered them in the 3rd century BC. Modern northern Italians are fairer featured.

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2021-02-25

In 59 AD, the Emperor Nero was determined to have his mother murdered. Suetonius claims Nero tried to poison her three times, then tried to have the ceiling fall in on her, then had men crash into his mother's boat and sink it. Eventually Nero had his mother assassinated

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2019-06-28

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tells us that purportedly led an abstemious life.

Had been "reinvented" to fit Caesar's conservatism thru works like Virgil's Georgics in response to Mark Antony's patron god

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2018-08-26