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Suetonius' most significant surviving work is recognized as the De Vita Caesarum, a couple of twelve biographies of the successive Roman rulers.

The emperor Nero's reign is one strange tale of sexual depravity and luxurious sadism. He was a gifted musician, and is said to have given great concerts which attendance was compulsory; women were said to have given birth through the performance, and men were powered to fake loss of life to flee. Nero kicked his pregnant partner to loss of life and then acquired a young boy castrated to replace her as his spouse; then, through the great flames of Rome, he is said to have played out the lyre to point out the beauty of the destruction. His eccentricities are a continuation of the tradition of his predecessors, only more perverted; Suetonius' consideration portrays a peculiar man in peculiar times.

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