In De vita Caesarum, Suetonius portrays the lives of twelve Roman emperors from Caesar to Domitian. He presents the light and dark sides of their personalities, thus offering a portrait of the mores of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. De viris illustribus is devoted to the lives of famous orators, grammarians, and philosophers and to their connections with their Greek forebears.

H. Martinet, Aurich.