Suetonius
The Twelve Caesars
Translated by Alexander Thomson, 1796
What this is
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.
How it is set
One leaf per book, with the sections numbered inside it as Long numbers them. A section of Marcus is often three lines, and a page holding three lines is not a page.
What is not here
Notes. These books have the text and nothing else at present — no map, no lives, no commentary. The Gospel of St Luke shows what an annotated book looks like on this shelf, and these will follow it. An empty heading is better than invented filler.