tranquillus

Updated: June 8, 2025

You may sup, I confess, at many places more splendidly; but nowhere with more unconstrained mirth, simplicity, and freedom: only make the experiment, and if you do not ever after excuse yourself to your other friends, to come to me, always put me off to go to them. Farewell. To SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS

the Younger Pliny - The Letters of Pliny the Younger

The new era which was inaugurated loosened his tongue and made him breathe more freely. He exulted that at last an honest man could venture to hold his head high without drawing down upon himself the vengeance of the vile informers who throve upon the misfortunes of the State. Two of Pliny's correspondents and friends were Cornelius Tacitus and Suetonius Tranquillus.

the Younger Pliny - Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1

'We cannot rival the luxuries of your English table, Captain Waverley, or give you the epulae lautiores of Waverley-Honour. I say epulae rather than prandium, because the latter phrase is popular: epulae ad senatum, prandium vero ad populum attinet, says Suetonius Tranquillus.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley — Complete

So that while with one hand he benefited literature, with the other he injured it. The birth year of C. SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS is uncertain, but may be assigned with probability to 75 A.D. We may here remark the extraordinary reticence of the later writers on the subject of their younger days. Seneca alone is communicative.

Charles Thomas Cruttwell - The History of Roman Literature : From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius

The historian Suetonius was satisfied with only the meaning of his name, which made him cashier his father's surname, Lenis, to leave Tranquillus successor to the reputation of his writings.

Michel de Montaigne - The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 07

'We cannot rival the luxuries of your English table, Captain Waverley, or give you the epulae lautiores of Waverley-Honour. I say epulae rather than prandium, because the latter phrase is popular: epulae ad senatum, prandium vero ad populum attinet, says Suetonius Tranquillus.

Sir Walter Scott - Waverley — Volume 1

I know nothing is more acceptable than to speak of one who is to be so; but to speak of one who is so! indeed, Jenny, I am a better bred man than you think me." She showed a little dislike at my raillery, and by her bridling up, I perceived she expected to be treated hereafter not as Jenny Distaff, but Mrs. Tranquillus.

Sir Richard Steele - Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer

"I have everything," says she, "in Tranquillus that I can wish for; and enjoy in him, what indeed you have told me were to be met with in a good husband, the fondness of a lover, the tenderness of a parent, and the intimacy of a friend." It transported me to see her eyes swimming in tears of affection when she spoke.

Sir Richard Steele - Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer

Do let me see your name on the title page; do let me hear that the volumes of my friend Tranquillus are being copied, read, and sold. It is only fair, considering the strength of our attachment, that you should afford me the same gratification that I have afforded you. Farewell.

the Younger Pliny - Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1

"Jenny," said I, "without having recourse to magic, I shall give you one plain rule that will not fail of making you always amiable to a man who has so great a passion for you, and is of so equal and reasonable a temper, as Tranquillus.

Sir Richard Steele - Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer