If anybody could help with it, a section on the transmission and manuscript history of this work would be most welcome! -- [[Special:Contributions/176.94.112.129|176.94.112.129]] ([[User talk:176.94.112.129|talk]]) 11:56, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

If anybody could help with it, a section on the transmission and manuscript history of this work would be most welcome! -- [[Special:Contributions/176.94.112.129|176.94.112.129]] ([[User talk:176.94.112.129|talk]]) 11:56, 29 May 2018 (UTC)

== Christian interpolations ==

Today, insertions have been made[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Twelve_Caesars&diff=prev&oldid=1339559305][https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Twelve_Caesars&diff=prev&oldid=1339625953] saying that the text of Suetonius includes obvious interpolations, such as

*{{tq|in the section on Augustus noting the birth of [[Jesus]] and calling him the "Savior of Mankind"}}

*{{tq|that [[Livy]] was born, "seventy years before the Christian era"}}.

The reinsertion cited Richard Carrier, “The Prospect of a Christian Interpolation in Tacitus, Annals 15.44,” ''Vigiliae Christianae 68'' (2014): 264-83, which is available [https://brill.com/view/journals/vc/68/3/article-p264_2.xml online on Brill]], free for Wikipedia Library members. Neither claim appears there, and I've failed to find any such text in any edition of Suetonius I have to hand, so I've reverted the insertions. Can anyone specify where in Suetonius these interpolations appear, or provide a ref which does discuss, and preferably locate, them? We might wish to include mentions in this article and in our [[Suetonius on Christians]]. [[User:NebY|NebY]] ([[User talk:NebY|talk]]) 14:33, 21 February 2026 (UTC)