Pliny, Letters 5.10 and the Literary Career of Suetonius

This paper establishes a new date for the publication of Suetonius’ Illustrious Men through allusions to Suetonius’ Virgil in Pliny, Letters 5.10. These allusions are part of a much wider network of allusions, both within this particular letter and more generally in Pliny's Book 5, that revolves around the theme of unpublished writings. It is a partial or full publication of the Illustrious Men that probably led to Suetonius’ award of the ius trium liberorum in a.d. 110, and he may now have published all of the Caesars before his dismissal by Hadrian in a.d. 122

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