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===Other works=== ====Partly extant==== *''De Viris Illustribus'' ("On Famous Men"βin the field of literature), to which belong: **''De Illustribus Grammaticis'' ("Lives of the [[Grammarian (Greco-Roman)|Grammarians]]"; 20 brief lives, apparently complete) **''De Claris Rhetoribus'' ("Lives of the Rhetoricians"; 5 brief lives out of an original 16 survive) **''De Poetis'' ("Lives of the Poets"; the life of [[Virgil]], as well as fragments from the lives of [[Terence]], [[Horace]] and [[Marcus Annaeus Lucanus|Lucan]], survive) **''De Historicis'' ("Lives of the historians"; a brief life of [[Pliny the Elder]] is attributed to this work) *''Peri ton par' Hellesi paidion'' ("Greek Games") *''Peri blasphemion'' ("Greek Terms of Abuse") The two last works were written in Greek. They apparently survive in part in the form of extracts in later Greek glossaries. ====Lost works==== The following list of Suetonius's lost works is from [[Robert Graves]]'s foreword to his translation of the ''Twelve Caesars.''<ref>{{cite book |author=Suetonius |translator-last=Graves |translator-first=Robert |translator-link=Robert Graves |title=Suetonius: The Twelve Caesars |year=1957 |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |location=Hamondsworth, Middlesex, England |page=7 |edition=1st |chapter=Foreword |editor-last=Rives |editor-first=James |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/35589/the-twelve-caesars/}}</ref> *''Royal Biographies'' *''Lives of Famous Whores'' *''Roman Manners and Customs'' *''The Roman Year'' *''The Roman Festivals'' *''Roman Dress'' *''Greek Games'' *''Offices of State'' *''On Cicero's Republic'' *''Physical Defects of Mankind'' *''Methods of Reckoning Time'' *''An Essay on Nature'' *''Greek Objurations'' *''Grammatical Problems'' *''Critical Signs Used in Books'' The introduction to the Loeb edition of Suetonius, translated by J. C. Rolfe, with an introduction by K. R. Bradley, references the ''[[Suda]]'' with the following titles: *''On Greek games'' *''On Roman spectacles and games'' *''On the Roman year'' *''On critical signs in books'' *''On Cicero's Republic'' *''On names and types of clothes'' *''On insults'' *''On Rome and its customs and manners'' The volume adds other titles not testified within the Suda. *''On famous courtesans'' *''On kings'' *''On the institution of offices'' *''On physical defects'' *''On weather signs'' *''On names of seas and rivers'' *''On names of winds'' Two other titles may also be collections of some of the aforelisted: *''Pratum (Miscellany)'' *''On various matters''
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