ἱστορίαι Historiai
Suet. Cal. 20 Gaius Caligula, Suetonius; served verbatim
He also gave shows in foreign lands, Athenian games® at Syracuse in Sicily, and miscellaneous games at Lugdunum in Gaul; at the latter place also a contest in Greek and Latin oratory, in which, they say, the losers gave prizes to the victors and were forced to compose eulogies upon them, while those who were least successful were ordered to erase their writings with a sponge or with their tongue,’ unless they elected rather to be beaten with rods or thrown into the neighbouring river.

The Greek stands ready in the workroom; the English is served. Both faces will read together.

← Suet. Cal. 19 contents Suet. Cal. 21 →

Gaius Caligula, Suetonius — translated by J. C. Rolfe, 1913
Apparatus shelf — Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars (J. C. Rolfe translation; Dover republication) · J. C. Rolfe, 1913 (preface dated Philadelphia, April 1913); Dover Publications republication, 2018
license: public-domain (US: the served text is Rolfe's 1913 translation, pre-1930 — verified from the scan's own copyright and preface pages; Dover-era apparatus [2018 arrangement, introductions, endnotes, index, the Lives of Illustrious Men part] is not extracted and not served)