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gulliver

(14,026 posts)

10. I knew he had a political axe to grind.

Reply to WarGamer (Reply #9)

Sun Apr 12, 2026, 01:31 PM

Sunday

And he's pretty clearly sensationalistic. I just index it though. I don't have the memory to keep track of what the axe was. And the sensationalism tells you something about him and other people of his time, just as TMZ does today for our time.

Even the inference, reasonable as it is, that Suetonius had vested interests is itself valuable to question and probe. It's all clues.