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Heritage Press, 1965. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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MP3 Audio CD. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars CAIUS JULIUS CASAR. I. Julius Caesar, the Divine, lost his father when he was in the sixteenth year of his age and the year following, being nominated to the office of high-priest of Jupiter, he repudiated Cossutia, who was very wealthy, although her family belonged only to the equestrian order, and to whom he had been contracted when he was a mere boy. He then married Cornelia, the daughter of Cinna, who was four times consul; and had by her, shortly afterwards, a daughter named Julia. Resisting all the efforts of the dictator Sylla to induce him to divorce Cornelia, he suffered the penalty of being stripped of his sacerdotal office, his wife’s dowry, and his own patrimonial estates; and, being identified with the adverse faction, was compelled to withdraw from Rome. After changing his place of concealment nearly every night, although he was suffering from a quartan ague, and having effected his release by bribing the officers who had tracked… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars CAIUS JULIUS CASAR. I. Julius Caesar, the Divine, lost his father when he was in the sixteenth year of his age and the year following, being nominated to the office of high-priest of Jupiter, he repudiated Cossutia, who was very wealthy, although her family belonged only to the equestrian order, and to whom he had been contracted when he was a mere boy. He then married Cornelia, the daughter of Cinna, who was four times consul; and had by her, shortly afterwards, a daughter named Julia. Resisting all the efforts of the dictator Sylla to induce him to divorce Cornelia, he suffered the penalty of being stripped of his sacerdotal office, his wife’s dowry, and his own patrimonial estates; and, being identified with the adverse faction, was compelled to withdraw from Rome. After changing his place of concealment nearly every night, although he was suffering from a quartan ague, and having effected his release by bribing the officers who had tracked… Read More

New York: The Heritage Press, 1965. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. Fiume, Salvatore. Includes slipcase and Sandglass insert Number 1:30. Slipcase panels lightly faded. Spine toned. 1965 Hard Cover. xvii, [1], 482, [1] pp. 8vo. Translated by Philemon Holland, revised for the present edition, with an introduction by Moses Hadas and illustrated with paintings by Salvatore Fiume. Suetonius, in full Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, (born 69 CE, probably Rome [Italy]—died after 122), Roman biographer and antiquarian whose writings include De viris illustribus (“Concerning Illustrious Men”), a collection of short biographies of celebrated Roman literary figures, and De vita Caesarum (Lives of the Caesars). The latter book, seasoned with bits of gossip and scandal relating to the lives of Julius Caesar and the first 11 Roman emperors, secured him lasting fame. Suetonius’ family was of the knightly class, or equites. A friend and… Read More

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New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. [c.1956]. Hardcover. The histories of the famous Roman emperors, from Julius Caesar to Domitian, have been carried forward from ancient times to the modern era largely through the efforts of Suetonius, a 1st and 2nd Century Roman historian. His writings have been rendered into English in this unexpurgated Modern Library edition. Edited, with notes and an introduction by Joseph Gavorse. This copy in brown and tan variant dust jacket. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 376 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1956 (though 1931 date appears in book). ML #188.1. --- A well-preserved copy: clean, tightly-bound, but with prior owner's signature to ffep and slight age-toning to cloth. Unclipped jacket ($1.45) with mild darkening to spine and small tears & chips to edges, otherwise… Read More

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