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• Emperors -- Rome -- Biography
• Emperors -- Rome -- Early works to 1800
• Rome -- Biography -- Early works to 1800

• The Lives of the Twelve Caesars; To Which Are Added, His Lives of the Grammarians, Rhetoricians, and Poets, by Suetonius, trans. by Alexander Thomson and Thomas Forester (Gutenberg text)
• The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine, by Eusebius of Caesarea (HTML at Fordham)
• De Die Natale; Life of the Emperor Hadrian (title of first book should be "De Die Natali"; New York: Cambridge Encyclopedia Co., 1900), trans. by William Maude, contrib. by Censorinus and Aelius Spartianus
  • HTML with commentary and corrected typos at elfinspell.com
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Scriptores Historiae Augustae, With an English Translation (in Latin and English; London: W. Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922-1932), trans. by David Magie (all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Regesten der Kaiser und Päpste für die Jahre 311 bis 476 n. Chr. (in German; Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 1919), by Otto Seeck
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • facsimile reprint: PDF in Switzerland; 172 MB

• Plutarch's Lives, Englished by Sir Thomas North (Temple Plutarch edition, in 10 volumes; London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1898-1924), by Plutarch, ed. by W. H. D. Rouse, trans. by Thomas North
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume 7: multiple formats at archive.org
• Plutarch's Lives (based on the "Dryden" translation), by Plutarch, ed. by Arthur Hugh Clough (Gutenberg text; 4.3 MB)
• Plutarch's Lives (in Greek and English), by Plutarch, trans. by Bernadotte Perrin (HTML at Perseus)
• Shakespeare's Plutarch: Being a Selection From the Lives in North's Plutarch Which Illustrate Shakespeare's Plays (London : Macmillan and co., 1875), by Plutarch, ed. by Walter W. Skeat, trans. by Thomas North (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare's Plutarch (2 volumes; New York: Duffield and Co.; London: Chatto and Windus, 1909), by Plutarch, ed. by Tucker Brooke, trans. by Thomas North
  • Volume I (sources for Julius Caeasar): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (sources for Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus): multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Aemilius Probus, De Excellentibus Ducibus Exterarum Gentium; et, Cornelli Nepotis Quae Supersunt (in Latin; Basel: Bibliopolii Schweighauseriani, 1841), by Cornelius Nepos, ed. by Karl Ludwig Roth (page images at HathiTrust)