Suetonius

===The Twelve Caesars===
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Suetonius is mainly remembered as the author of ''De Vita Caesarum''—translated as ''The Life of the Caesars'', although a more common English title is ''The Lives of the Twelve Caesars'' or simply ''[[The Twelve Caesars]]''—his only extant work except for the brief biographies and other fragments noted below. ''The Twelve Caesars'', probably written in Hadrian's time, is a collective biography of the Roman Empire's first leaders, [[Julius Caesar]] (the first few chapters are missing), [[Augustus]], [[Tiberius]], [[Caligula]], [[Claudius]], [[Nero]], [[Galba]], [[Otho]], [[Vitellius]], [[Vespasian]], [[Titus]] and [[Domitian]]. The book was dedicated to his friend [[Gaius Septicius Clarus]], a [[prefect]] of the [[Praetorian Guard]] in 119.<ref>{{cite book |first=Leighton Durham |last=Reynolds |author-link=Leighton Durham Reynolds |title=Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics |location=Oxford |year=1980 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cJ11AAAAIAAJ |publisher=[[Clarendon Press]] |page=509 |isbn=978-0-19-814456-4 |quote=The dedication, in the lost preface, is recorded by a sixth-century source when the text was still complete}}</ref> The work tells the tale of each Caesar's life according to a set formula: the descriptions of appearance, omens, family history, quotes, and then a history are given in a consistent order. He recorded the earliest accounts of [[List of people with epilepsy|Julius Caesar's epileptic seizures]].