[144] The paragraphs from this point to the end are from Pliny's second letter to Tacitus.
[145] The island near Naples, now called Capri.
SUETONIUS
Lived in the first half of the second century a.d.; biographer and historian; private secretary of the emperor Hadrian about 119-121; a friend of the younger Pliny, whom he accompanied to Bithynia in 112; wrote several works, of which only His "Lives of the Twelve Cæsars" have survived.