Person — one identity, discriminated; every claim below carries its ground or says it has none

Gaius Suetonius Paulinus

fl. 42–69 CE · dates conventional · identity secure · PIR S 694 receipt — the person layer

The general: Britain's governor against Boudicca, Otho's field commander — PIR S 694, one entry above the biographer.

Who he is — which bearer of the name; the grounds are named

In the year of four emperors, Plutarch lists him among Otho's commanders of distinction. secure

under the command of Marius Celsus and Suetonius Paulinus, besides Gallus and Spurina. These were men of distinction, Plut. Otho 5 Otho · Plutarch

How to tell him apart — the record confusing and un-confusing its own names; doors to the other men

Two Suetonii, one page of the register: the general and his biographer-namesake. secure The author of the Lives narrates this man's war (Otho's campaign) while his own father serves in it — Suet. Oth. 10 beside Plut. Oth. 5, with PIR S 694/695 as referee. The drawer belongs to the general; the witness card belongs to the author. the other man: Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

The career — offices and deeds as the record states them

Tacitus hands him Britain: rival of Corbulo in soldiership and in fame. secure

Britain was in the hands of Suetonius Paulinus, who in military knowledge and in popular favour, which allows no one to be without a rival, vied with Corbulo, Tac. Ann. 14.29 The Annals · Tacitus

the deed: revolt of Boudicca

The authorities — the registers cited page-anchored, never reprinted

PIR S 694: 'no man of that age was held more skilled in war' — the register quoting Tacitus. secure

'Nemo illa tempestate militaris rei callidior habebatur' Tac. h. 2, 31 Prosopographia Imperii Romani, Pars III (de Rohden & Dessau, 1898), p. 278 cited, never reprinted — the apparatus shelf

PIR prints the general at S 694 and the biographer at S 695 on the same opening — the homonym cure is the apparatus's own page. The English rendering in the claim line is the house's own; the excerpt carries the register's words.

Doors — where this identity stands in the house

the record's drawer

he stands in the record — the drawer is this man, curator-verified. Suetonius, the figure — 8 mentions across 6 episodes, counted by the house's first pass.

The name's other bearers — identities sharing ‘suetonius’; the desk keeps them apart

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus — c. 70 – after 122 CE

The record here: 166 works · 12,119 episodes served · identities carry claims, claims carry grounds — episode, page, or an honest open · dprr alignment reserved, nothing fetched

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