He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.].

Let the die be cast. [Lat., Jacta alea esto; or, jacta esa alea.).

These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate..

As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [ Claudius ] expelled them [the Jews] from Rome.

Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee. -.

When I am dead let the earth be dissolved in fire..

General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives..

Punishment [by Nero] was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a new and mischievous superstition..

I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble..

Again, during a sacrifice, the augur Spurinna warned Caesar that the danger threatening him would not come later than the Ides of March..

A good shepherd shears his flock, not flays them. [Lat., Boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere.].

At a banquet Caligula was suddenly seized with a fit of helpless laughter. The consuls reclining next to him asked if they might share in the imperia….

Few of Caesar's assassins outlived him by more than three years, or died in their beds..

The fox changes his skin but not his habits..

If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you are a fool..

Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral….

Would that the Roman people had but one neck! [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!].