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• 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
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• C. Suetonii Tranquilli De vita Caesarum liber VIII Divus Vespasianus; Suetonius's Life of Vespasian with notes and parallel passages (Philadelphia, Pa., 1924), by Suetonius and Harriet Margretta Thompson Skerrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of twelve Caesars (D. Nutt, 1899), by Suetonius, Philemon Holland, and Charles Whibley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gai Svetoni Tranqvilli De vita Caesarvm libri dvo (H. Holt, 1889), by Suetonius and Harry Thurston Peck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dionis Cassii Nicaei Romanae historiae libri (tot enim hodie extant) XXV, nimirum à XXXVI ad LXI : quibus exponuntur res gestae à bello Cretico us[que] ad mortem Claudij Caesaris, quae est historia annorum circiter CXX (apud Ioannem Oporinum, 1558), by Dión Casio, Johann Oporinus, Wilhelm Xylander, and Joannes Xiphilinus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quae supersunt omnia (Inaedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1904), by Suetonius, Karl Ludwig Roth, and Karl Ludwig Roth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historiae Avgvstae scriptores sex : Ael. Spartianvs, Vvlc. Gallicanvs, Ivl. Capitolinvs, Trebell. Pollio, Ael. Lampridvs, Flav. Vopiscvs (apvd Siegfrid. Lebrecht Crvsivm, 1774), by Josias Ludwig Ernst Püttmann and Johann Peter Schmid (page images at HathiTrust)
• A chronicle of all the noble emperours of the Romaines, : from Iulius Caesar, orderly to this moste victorious Emperour Maximilian, that now gouerneth, with the great warres of Iulius Caesar, & Pompeius Magnus: setting forth the great power, and deuine prouidence of almighty God, in preseruing the godly princes and common wealthes. (by Thomas Marshe, 1571), by Richard Rainolde (page images at HathiTrust)
• The scriptores historiae augustae (Harvard University Press ;, 1921), by Hermann Peter, Susan Helen Ballou, Ainsworth O'Brien-Moore, David Magie, and David Magie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• C. Suetoni Tranquilli quae supersunt omnia. (sumptibus et typis B. G. Teubneri, 1875), by ca. 69-ca. 122 Suetonius and Karl Ludwig Roth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caii Suetonii Tranquilli Opera (Parisiis : Excudunt Plon Fratres, 1845., 1845), by Suetonius and Etienne Gros (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia romana (Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios ;, 1733), by Sextus Aurelius Victor, Jacob van Poolsum, Johannes Arntzenius, Carlo Sigonio, and Petrus Nannius (page images at HathiTrust)
• De vitis imperatorvm et caesarvm romanorvm (Imprimabat Johannes Bringerus, 1615), by Octavius de Strada and Octavius de Strada (page images at HathiTrust)
• C. Suetonii Tranquilli Vita Tiberii [commentario instruxit] pars prior : specimen litterarium inaugurale quod annuente summo numine ... (E. Van der Vecht, 1906), by Suetonius and Jacobus Huddleston Slater (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nicolaus of Damascus' life of Augustus : Translated with a commentary, by of Damascus Nicolaus, trans. by Clayton Morris Hall (Gutenberg ebook)

• Antonii Augustinii Archiepisc. Tarracon. Antiquitatum romanorum hispanarumque in nummis veterum dialogi XI (Apud Henricum Aertssium, 1617), by Antonio Agustín, Andreas Schottus, Jacques De Bie, and Hendrik Aertssens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Numismata imperatorum Romanorum praestantiora a Julio Caesare ad postumum usque (Sumtibus Caroli Barbiellini, & Venantii Monaldini sociorum in via lata, typis Jo.Baptistae Bernabo, & Josephi Lazzarni, 1743), by Jean Foy-Vaillant and France) Collège Saint-Joseph (Poitiers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Romanorum imperatorum effigies (Apud Vincentium Accoltum, 1583), by Giovanni Battista Cavalieri, Tomasz Treter, and Vincenzo Accolti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tooneel van staat der Roomsche keiseren (By Adriaan Schoonebeek ..., 1694), by Ludolph Smids and Adriaan Schoonebeek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Series Augustorum, Augustarum, Caesarum, et tyrannorum omnium, tam in Oriente, quam in Occidente a C.J. Caesare ad Carolum VI. : cum eorundem imaginibus ex optimorum numismatum fide ad vivum expressis (Apud Jo. Baptistam Recurti, 1740), by Lorenzo Patarolo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Regum romanorum una cum quorundam eorum uxorum quantum ex antiquis numismatis marmoribusque colligere licuit exactissima effigierum (1550), by Antonio Salamanca, Marcantonio Raimondi, Martin Rota, Hans Vredeman de Vries, and Frans Huys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Museo Capitolino (Si vende alla Calcografia Camerale, al Piede di Marmo, 1741), by Italy) Musei capitolini (Rome, Niccolò Pagliarini, Marco Pagliarini, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Francesco Barbazza, Leonardo Germo, Carlo Faucci, Mr Ale, Antonio Capellan, Domenico Cunego, Cosomo Colombini, Niccolò Mogalli, Carlo Antonini, Hieronymus Masius, Giovanni Maria Cassini, Giuseppe Vasi, Filippo Morghen, Pietro Santi Bartoli, Giovanni Battista Sintes, Gennaro Gutierrez, Nicola Gutierrez, Marcantonio Corsi, Pierre Ignace Parrocel, Giuseppe Benedetti, Francesco Mazzoni, Girolamo Rossi, Silvio Pomarede, Nicolò Billy, Carlo Gregori, Antonio Pazzi, Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, Antonio Fulgoni, Antonio de Rossi, N. Foggini, Giovanni Gaetano Bottari, and Italy) Calcografia camerale (Rome (page images at HathiTrust)
• De vitis imperatorvm et caesarvm romanorvm (Imprimabat Johannes Bringerus, 1615), by Octavius de Strada and Octavius de Strada (page images at HathiTrust)

• Divo Caesari Avgvsto Ferdinando II. Bohemiae et Vngariae regi etc. (Marcus Sadeler, 1640), by Ægidius Sadeler, Bernardino Campi, approximately 1488-1576 Titian, and Marcus Sadeler (page images at HathiTrust)

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• 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)
• Catiline, Clodius, and Tiberius (Chapman and Hall, 1878), by Edward Spencer Beesly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Julian, philosopher and emperor, and the last struggle of paganism against Christianity (AMS Press, 1978), by Alice Gardner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Julian, philosopher and emperor, and the last struggle of paganism against Christianity (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1895), by Alice Gardner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and principate of the Emperor Hadrian, A.D. 76-138 (Methuen & Co., 1923), by Bernard W. Henderson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Marcus Aurelius; a biography told as much as may be by letters, together with some account of the Stoic religion and an exposition of the Roman government's attempt to suppress Christianity during Marcus's reign (Yale University Press; [etc., etc.], 1921), by Henry Dwight Sedgwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Augustus; the life and times of the founder of the Roman empire [B.C. 63-A.D. 14] (T.F. Unwin, 1903), by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caivs Svetonivs Tranqvillvs, : cum Isaaci Casavboni Animaduersionibus et Dissertationibus Politicis Ioh. Henr. Boecleri, Itemque Vberrimo Indice. (Sumptibus Iosiae Staedelii, 1688), by Suetonius, Isaac Casaubon, and Johann Heinrich Boecler (page images at HathiTrust)
• C. Suetonii Tranquilli vitae duodecim Caesarum, : cum scriptus minoribus et fragmentis. (Sumptibus Ottonis Holtze, 1874), by Suetonius (page images at HathiTrust)
• C. Suetonii Tranquilli vita divi Claudii. Specimen litterarium inaugurale quod annuente summo numine (apud J. B. Wolters, 1896), by Suetonius, Hendrik Smilda, and Floris de Boer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plutarch's lives of Galba and Otho. (Macmillan, 1890), by Plutarch and Ernest George Hardy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the Roman emperors, from Augustus to the death of Marcus Antoninus. (Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; [etc., etc.], 1850), by Robert Lynam, John T. White, and John Tahourdin White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nerone nella storia aneddotica e nella leggenda (Fratelli Treves, 1923), by Carlo Pascal (page images at HathiTrust)
• De quattuor prioribus historiae Augustae scriptoribus (Typis Academicis Dalkowskianis, 1869), by Emil Brocks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scriptores historiae avgvstae (B.G. Teubner, 1884), by Hermann Wilhelm Gottlob Peter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historiae augustae scriptores sex (Apud Siegfrid. Lebrecht Crusium, 1774), by Gerardus Joannes Vossius and Josias Ludwig Ernst Püttmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nero (Harper, 1901), by Jacob Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tragedy of the Caesars. : a study of the characters of the Caesars of the Julian and Claudian houses (Scribner, 1895), by S. Baring-Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caji Suetonii Tranquilli opera : & in illa commentarius Samuelis Pitisci, in quo antiquitates romanae ex auctoribus idoneis fere nongentis, Graecis et Latinis, veteribus & recentionibus, perpetuo tenore explicantur : huic accedunt terni indices, I. editionum, II. auctorum cum laudatorum, tum obiter notatorum emendatorum, explicitorum. III. rerum absolutissimus & locupletissimus : imperatorum imperatoresque arctissimo gradu contingentium icones : & figurae ex veterum monumentis ad historiam illustrandam depromptae, in aes eleganter incisae. (Excudit Franciscus Halma, D.D. Ordinum, Frisiae Typographus ordinarius, 1714), by Suetonius, François Halma, and Samuel Pitiscus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vita di Costantino il Grande, primo imperador cristiano : con l'aggiunta di un esame critico sopra diversi punti più principali di questa parte di storia ed una vera idea della chiesa in quell'epoca : divisa in due parti (Per Giovanni Tomassini, stampator vescovile, 1786), by Francesco Gusta (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of the blessed Emperor Constantine, in four books, from 306 to 337 A.D. (S. Bagster and sons, 1845), by Eusebius of Caesarea (page images at HathiTrust)
• C. Suetonius Tranquillus : cum notis integris Jo. Bapt. Egnatii, Henrici Glareani, Laevini Torrentii, Fulvii Ursini, Isacii Casauboni, Jani Gruteri, Theod. Marcilii, Joannis Georgii Graevii, Caroli Patini, (qui ex numismatibus illustravit) & selectis aliorum (Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1736), by Suetonius, Matthias Bernegger, Pieter Burman, Charles Patin, Joannes Georgius Graevius, Théodore Marcile, Janus Gruterus, Isaac Casaubon, Fulvio Orsini, Laevinus Torrentius, Henricus Glareanus, and Giovanni Battista Egnazio (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Emperor Julian (Deighton, Bell, and co.; [etc., etc.], 1879), by Gerald Henry Rendall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Julian, philosopher and emperor (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1895), by Alice Gardner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caius Suetonius Tranquillus : cum animadversionibus Io. Augusti Ernesti. (Apud Ioan. Wendlerum, 1748), by Suetonius and Johann August Ernesti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le vite de' dodici Cesari di G. Suetonio Tranquillo (Dai torchj di Mauro del Majno., 1807), by Suetonius and Paolo Del Rosso (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opera omnia, ex editione Baumgarten-Crusii, cum notis et interpretatione in usum Delphini variis lectionibus, notis variorum recensu editionum et codicum et indice locupletissimo accurate recensita. (Valpy, 1826), by Suetonius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tranquilli opera (Londini, 1824), by Suetonius (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Justine taken out of the four and forty books of Trogus Pompeius (Printed for W. Gilbertson, 1654), by Marcus Junianus Justinus, Robert Codrington, and Pompeius Trogus (page images at HathiTrust)
• C. Svetonii Tranqvilli XII. Caesares (Apud Seb. Gryphium Lugduni,, 1547), by ca. 69-ca. 122 Suetonius, Sebastianus Gryphius, Desiderius Erasmus, and Giovanni Battista Egnazio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Duodecim Caesares (Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Franciscum Raphelengium., 1596), by ca. 69-ca. 122 Suetonius, Franciscus Raphelengius, and Plantijnsche Drukkerij (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sketch of the life and character of Constantine the Great (Chicago, 1915), by George William Warvell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Caesars. (Ticknor and Fields, 1858), by Thomas De Quincey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gai Suetoni Tranquilli De vita Caesarum libri duo (H. Holt, 1889), by Suetonius and Harry Thurston Peck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charakterbilder Spätroms und die Entstehung des modernen Europa (Verlag Quelle & Meyer, 1919), by Theodor Birt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Zhiznʹ dvi͡enadt͡sati t͡sezareĭ. (A.S. Suvorin, 1904), by ca. 69-ca. 122 Suetonius and Vasiliĭ Alekseevich Alekseev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The scriptores historiae augustae (Harvard University Press ;, 1921), by Hermann Peter, Susan Helen Ballou, Ainsworth O'Brien-Moore, David Magie, and David Magie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De die natale ("The natal day") (The Cambridge encyclopedia co., 1900), by Censorinus and William Maude (page images at HathiTrust)
• De vita et moribus imperatorum Romanorvm (Apud Gaasbequios, 1669), by Sextus Aurelius Victor, Gaasbeeck, and Andreas Schottus (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of the life of Hadrian prior to his accession (Department of history of Smith college, 1919), by William Dodge Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patmutʻiwn erkotasan kesaratsʻ (Tpagrutʻiwn Tētēean, 1876), by Suetonius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epitome thesauri antiquitatum, hoc est, Impp. Rom. orientalium et occidentalium iconum (Apvd Andream Gesnervm f., 1557), by Jacobus Strada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Imperatorum Romanorum omnium orientalium et occidentalium verissimae imagines ex antiquis numismatis quam fidelissime delineatae (Ex officina Andreae Gesneri, 1559), by Jacobus Strada, Peter Flötner, Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch, Rudolf Wyssenbach, and Christoph Schweitzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historiae Romanae breviarium (Apud Danielem, Abrahamum & Adrianum à Gaesbeeck, 1670), by Sextus Aurelius Victor, Adriaen van Gaasbeeck, Abraham van Gaasbeeck, Daniel van Gaasbeeck, and Romeyn de Hooghe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kunstliche und aigendtliche Bildtnussen der Rhömischen Keyseren, ihrer Weybern und Kindern (Bey Andrea Gessner, 1558), by Jacobus Strada, Guillaume Rouillé, and Diethelm Keller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Scriptores Historiae Augustae (Ph. Tschörner, 1886), by Albert Gemoll (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Epitome du thresor des antiquitez (Par Iaqves de Strada et Thomas Gverin, 1553), by Jacobus Strada and Jean Louveau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Augustus Caesar (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903), by John B. Firth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Roman expresses (Walpole Press, 1899), by Jacques Roergas de Serviez (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historiae augustae scriptores sex (Apud Siegfrid. Lebrecht Crusium, 1774), by Gerardus Joannes Vossius and Josias Ludwig Ernst Püttmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• ︠I︡Ulian-Otstupnik : (tragedi︠i︡a religioznoĭ lichnosti) (Petrograd : [publisher not identified], 1923., 1923), by N. N. Rozentalʹ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• C. Suetonii Tranquilli Opera (Ex typis viduae Pomba et filiorum, 1823), by Suetonius and Detlev Carl Wilhelm Baumgarten-Crusius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Augustus: The Life and Times of the Founder of the Roman Empire, by Evelyn S. Shuckburgh (Gutenberg ebook)
• Under Cæsars' Shadow, by Henry Francis Colby (Gutenberg ebook)

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