Lives of the Twelve Caesars Vol. 14 : Lives of the Poets

NOTE: THIS IS a DOWNLOADABLE E-BOOK. It is reported that he was immoderately addicted to venery. [For he is said to have had obscene pictures so disposed in a bedchamber lined with mirrors, that, whichever way he looked, lascivious images might present themselves to his view.] [971] He lived for the most part in the retirement of his farm [972], on the confines of the Sabine and Tiburtine territories, and his house is shewn in the neighbourhood of a little wood not far from Tibur. Some Elegies ascribed to him, and a prose Epistle apparently written to commend himself to Mecaenas, have been handed down to us; but I believe that neither of them are genuine works of his; for the Elegies are commonplace, and the Epistle is wanting in perspicuity, a fault which cannot be imputed to his style.Tranquillus, C. Suetonius is the author of 'Lives of the Twelve Caesars Vol. 14 : Lives of the Poets', published 2004 under ISBN 9781419270451 and ISBN 1419270451.