Suessula

, a town of Camp an i a. Livy , bk. 7 , ch. 37 ; bk. 23 , ch. 14 . ♦ Suet on i us Caius Paul in us , the first Roman general who cro ed mount Atlas with an army, of which expedition he wrote an account. He presided over Britain as governor for about 20 years, and was afterwards made consul. He forsook the interest of Otho, and attached himself to Vitelli us.――Caius Tranquillus, a Latin historian, son of a Roman knight of the same name. He was favoured by Adrian, and became his secretary, but he was afterwards banished from the court for want of attention and respect to the empre Sabina. In his retirement Suet on i us enjoyed the friendship and correspondence of Pliny the younger, and dedicated his time to study. He wrote a history of the Roman kings, divided into three books; a catalogue of all the illustrious men of Rome, a book on the games and spectacles of the Greeks, . , which are all now lost. The only one of his compositions extant, is the lives of the 12 first Cæsars, and some fragments of his catalogue of celebrated grammarians. Suet on i us, in his Lives, is praised for his impartiality and correctne . His expre ions, however, are often too indelicate, and it has been justly observed, that while he exposed the deformities of the Cæsars, he wrote with all the licentiousne and extravagance with which they lived. The best editions of Suet on i us are that of Pitiscus, 4to, 2  vols. , Leiden, 1714; that of Oudendorp, 2  vols. , 8vo, Leiden, 1751; and that of Ernesti, 8vo, Lipscomb, 1775. Pliny , bk. 1 , ltr. 11 ; bk. 5 , ltr. 11 , . ♦ ‘Set on i us’ replaced with ‘Suet on i us’