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

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

c. 70 – after 122 CE · dates approximate · identity secure · PIR S 695 receipt — the person layer

The biographer of the Caesars — PIR S 695, printed directly beneath the general who shares his name.

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

He dates himself in an aside: a young man twenty years after Nero's death — the very line PIR builds his entry from. secure

twenty years later, when I was a young man, a person of obscure origin appeared, who gave out that he was Nero, Suet. Nero 57 Nero · Suetonius

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

The record's 'suetonius' drawer is the general, not the author. secure figure:suetonius (8 mentions) is Suetonius Paulinus — Wave C's identity judgment. The biographer enters his own Lives only in asides (his father at Bedriacum, his boyhood under Domitian); the desk gives him a row without a drawer and says why. the other man: Gaius Suetonius Paulinus

The family — as stated, never construed

His father Laetus fought at Bedriacum as an equestrian tribune — the son says so himself. secure

My father Suetonius Laetus took part in that war, as a tribune of the equestrian order in the Thirteenth legion. Suet. Otho 10 Otho · Suetonius

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

PIR S 695: the biographer's entry, built from his own asides — son of Laetus, a youth under Domitian. secure

quillus vel Suetonius vel Tranquillus), Suetonii Laeti, tribuni angusti- clavii a. 69, filius ipse Oth. 10 {avum ipse memorat Gai. 19), adulescens temporibus Domitiani ipse Ner. 57, Dom. 12. Prosopographia Imperii Romani, Pars III (de Rohden & Dessau, 1898), p. 279 cited, never reprinted — the apparatus shelf

The excerpt opens mid-word ('[Tran]quillus') because the entry head falls at the previous page's foot — the column law cuts at the page seam. PIR cites Oth. 10, Ner. 57, Dom. 12: all served. 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 witness card

This identity is a served author — his vantage, method and reception are profiled. the witness card.

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

Gaius Suetonius Paulinus — fl. 42–69 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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