Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus was probably born in AD 69 - the
so-called 'year of the four Emperors." He was described by
Suetonius' patron Pliny the Younger as a reserved and scholarly
man, whose great passion in life was literature. His abilities won
him a high position in the imperial secretariat. He served the
emperor Hadrian as the emperor's personal amenuensis, before being
dismissed in obscure circumstances following a scandal that
involved Hadrian's wife. Suetonius seems to have lived to a good
age and probably died around the year 140.
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