Excerpt from Gai Suetoni Tranquilli De Vita Caesarum Libri Duo It is, in fact, in the literature of the early Empire that one begins to feel and recognize in Roman thought a spirit and a tone that are, beyond all question, modern. Their manifestation is extremely subtle, yet it cannot be ignored. One feels it quite instinctively, without perhaps a definite understanding of just where it actually lies. It is not in the language. It is not in the theme. Appare ently it is not in the purely literary treatment. Only after one has read and reread the pages that have affected him with so curious a sense of modernness is he ready to analyze with accuracy the impression that has been made upon him, and to discover just where the mind that lives behind the written page comes into sympathetic contact with his own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.