Suetonius, The History of the Twelve Caesars (1606)

Date

1606

Author

Suetonius

Translator

Philemon Holland Note: 30/09/2005

Book title

The Historie of Twelve Caesars Emperours of Rome

Publication place

London

Printer

H. Lownes and G. Snowdon

Publisher

Matthew Lownes

Text type

printed book

Genre

Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies

Subject area

• hard words
• history

Summary

Marginal glosses that explain hard words or obscure things in "Annotations vpon C. Iulius Caesar Dictator" (1-9), "Annotations vpon Octauius Augustus Caesar" (10-20), "Annotations vpon Tiberius Nero Caesar" (21-24), "Annotations vpon Caius Caesar Caligula" (25-27), "Annotations vpon Titus Flavius Vespasianus Augustus" (37), "Annotations vpon Flavius Domitianus" (38), "Annotations vpon Aulus Vitellius" (39), "Annotations vpon Flavius Vespasianus Augustus" (36), "Annotations vpon Servius Sulpitius Galba" (35), "Annotations vpon Marcus Salvius Otho" (34), "Annotations vpon Nero Claudius Caesar" (31-32, 39), and "Annotations vpon Tiberius Claudius Drusus Caesar" (28, 39)

Extent

1-29

Word-group

type: other

Word-entry

type: headword
sample: And one Legion aboue the rest, enrolled from out of the Countries beyond the Alpes, hee termed by a French word, For it was * Alauda.
* The bird Galerita or Cassita, so called of a crest, upon the head. This Legion it should seeme ware Plumes of feathers in their crests of Helmets, whereupon it tooke that name. (p. 10)

STC

23422

Other editions

1672: Wing S6147;
1677: Wing S6148;
1686: Wing S6150;
1688: Wing S6148a, -49;
1689: WIng S6149a;
1692: Wing S6151;
1698: Wing S6152