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Now let's get to the reading.

Tonight we're dipping back into classic. the reading from the lives of the Twelve Caesars by see Suetonius Tranquilis, to which are added

his lives of the Gramerians, rhetoricions, and poets, translated by Alexander Thompson, and revised

by T Forrester, published by George Bell, London, 1896.

Let's begin this evening with volume 5, Claudius.

Tiberius Claudius Drus's Caesar.

Livia, having married Augustus when she was pregnant

was within three months afterwards delivered of Drusis, the father of Claudius Caesar,

who had at first the pre-Nomen of Decimus, but afterwards that of Nero.

And it was suspected that he was begotten in adultery by his father-in-law.

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