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Augustus's "minnows and Suetonius

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Mar 17, 2002, 5:59:00 AM3/17/02
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merops <mer...@knickersmail.com> wrote:


>The sharp contrast between Suetonius' depiction of his "deranged"
>Gaius Caligula, and the more sane one by, say, Josephus, makes
>one doubt the slant Suetonius puts on things.

The bit about Julius Caesar being the bisexual lover of some king
always struck me as a bit suspect.

And Augustus's "minnows" is there any confirmation of that outside
Suetonius ?

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