Abstract

In 1900 Macé suggested that Suetonius may very well have been procurator of the Greek and Latin libraries before becomingab epistulis; two of his successors in the latter office passed to it from the former. Macé went on: ‘Si on venait à découvrir une inscription concernant notre secrétaireab epistulis, il ne serait pas surprenant que le texte en fût ici parallèle à ceux que nous avons conservés sur ses deux collègues.’ These were prophetic words, for in 1952 there was published an inscription concerning Suetonius, discovered in the Forum of Hippo Regius (Bône in Algeria), which reveals that he was indeeda studiis a bybliothecis ab epistulis imp. Caesaris Traiani Hadriani Aug.

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