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Augustus’ Mime of Life (Suetonius, Aug. 99.1)
- Classical World
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 107, Number 1, Fall 2013
- pp. 99-103
- 10.1353/clw.2013.0114
- Article
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This paper defends the reading mimum in the death scene of Suetonius’ Life of the emperor Augustus. This reading is supported by the evidence of the biographer’s manuscript tradition, a similar passage in Cicero, and the parallel report by the historian Dio.