The origin of the Suetonii is nowhere mentioned in ancient writers, but several of them came from Pisaurum in Umbria, suggesting that this may be their original home.
The only distinct family of the Suetonii bore the cognomenPaulinus or Paullinus, derived from the common surname Paullus, meaning "small", which could be bestowed on account of a person's stature, or upon the youngest child in a family. It is not known whether or how the historian Suetonius was related to this family.
Members
Lucius Suetonius L. l. Mama, a freedman named in an inscription from Rome, dating to the middle or later first century BC.
Suetonia C. f. Faustula, ostensibly the daughter of Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, the governor of Britain, buried at the present site of Wotton-under-Edge. The inscription is thought to be modern.
Gaius Suetonius Callistus, buried in a first-century tomb at the site of modern Montopoli di Sabina in Sabinum.
Suetonia T. l. Dionysia, a freedwoman named in a first-century inscription from the site of modern Stroncone, formerly part of Sabinum.
Suetonia C. C. Ɔ. l. Pelagia, a freedwoman named in a first-century inscription from Rome.
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, the historian, was a friend of the younger Pliny the Younger, through whose influence he became tribune of the plebs, and was granted the jus trium liberorum by Trajan. He was magister epistolarum under Hadrian, although he was later deprived of his office, along with many others, on suspicion of having become overly familiar with the empress Sabina. Suetonius was a grammarian, and wrote numerous works, several of which have survived.
Gaius Suetonius Claudianus, an eques at Caere in Etruria, where he served as aedilejure dicundo and praefectus aerarii, or treasurer, according to an inscription dating from AD 113.
Lucius Suetonius Januarius, dedicated a second-century tomb at Interamna Nahars in Umbria for his father, Titus Mevidius Apollinaris.
Gaius Suetonius C. f. Marcellinus, a native of Pisaurum, mentioned in a list of soldiers stationed at Rome in AD 154.
Suetonius Germanus, together with his wife, Licinia, made an offering to Anna Perenna at Rome on the Nones of Aprilis in AD 156.
Suetonius Taurus, a frumentarius, and one of the heirs of Marcus Orbius, a soldier buried at Rome, aged thirty-five, with a tomb dating between AD 150 and 250, and dedicated by Taurus and Marcus Valerius Dionysius, Orbius' client and the other heir. Orbius, a native of Aquae Sextiae, had been an optio, and after serving for seventeen years, was made a centurion fifty-one days before his death.
Suetonius Optatianus, said by Vopiscus to have written a detailed biography of the emperor Marcus Claudius Tacitus. From his name, and the fact that he is not mentioned by any other source, modern scholars suspect that he was an invention of Vopiscus.
Suetonius Jovinus, a native of Dyrrachium in Epirus, buried in a fourth-century tomb at Brattia in Dalmatia, aged sixty, having died on January 3.
Undated Suetonii
Lucius Suetonius Crescens, dedicated a tomb at Ateste in Venetia and Histria for his wife Suetonia Logas.
Gaius Suetonius Diodorus, buried at Rome, with a monument dedicated by his friend, Postumius Fortunatus, and the freedwoman Primitia, one of his clients.
Gaius Suetonius Januarius, prefect of the Cohors I Chalcidenorum, one of the Roman Auxilia stationed in Numidia, dedicated a tomb for his wife, Papiria Irena, at the present site of Bir Um Ali.
Suetonia L. l. Logas, buried at Ateste, with a monument from her husband, Lucius Suetonius Crescens.
Sextus Suetonius Sex. l. Philodamus, dedicated a tomb at Pisae in Etruria to the freedwoman Suetonia Zophrona, perhaps his wife.
Gaius Suetonius Rogatus, buried at Theveste, aged eighty, with a monument from his children.
Suetonia Sex. l. Zophrona, a freedwoman buried at Pisae, in a tomb dedicated by the freedman Sextus Suetonius Philodamus, perhaps her husband.
