Twelve imperial biographies by a man who had been secretary to Hadrian and had the archives open to him. He arranges each life not as a narrative but under headings — ancestry, appearance, habits, vices, death — and reports the gossip alongside the documents without always saying which is which.
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Every run of seven words or more that appears both here and in another book on this shelf, merged into the longest passage they have in common. The Twelve Caesars shares wording with 1 of the other 37. This is quotation, or a common source, or one translator doing both — not a resemblance inferred from vocabulary.
field: Thou, when thy riper years shall send thee forth To toils of war, be mindful of my worth; Assert thy birthright, and in arms be known, For Hector’s nephew, and Aeneas’ sonBook 12 and Life 2
Of the sixty counted across the shelf, the ones this book names most. A name is counted wherever it is written, whoever is speaking. Each one has a page of its own listing every chapter, in every book, that carries it.
Translator: Alexander Thomson, 1796. Source: Gutenberg 6400.
The text here is Alexander Thomson’s translation as revised by T. Forester, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 6400, set unaltered. The Lives of the Poets, printed in the same volume, is not included.
All twelve lives, 527 numbered sections.
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