This man, a private secretary to Hadrian, is the source for scandalous anecdotes such as the maddened tirade "Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!"
This man contradicted the work of Didymus is his lost tract On Cicero's Republic, and his lost Prata is cited as the origin of a boomerang myth. The work of Marius Maximus was styled in imitation of this man, who wrote a work with sections on "Grammarians", "Rhetoricians", "Poets", and "Historians"- a largely-lost text entitled Concerning Illustrious Men. This man, a private secretary to Hadrian, is the source for scandalous anecdotes such as the maddened tirade "Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions!" and the scheme to name a horse as consul cooked up by Caligula. For 10 points, name this Roman biographer who discussed leaders from Julius Caesar to Domitian in his Lives of the Caesars.
This man contradicted the work of Didymus is his lost tract On Cicero's Republic, and his lost Prata is cited as the origin of a boomerang myth.
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus