Caesars

I have borrowed The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, translated by Robert Graves, from the Public Library. The title characters are:

DIVUS JULIUS

DIVUS AUGUSTUS

TIBERIUS

GAIUS CALIGULA

DIVUS CLAUDIUS

NERO

GALBA

OTHO

VITELLIUS

DIVUS VESPASIAN

DIVUS TITUS

DOMITIAN

Janne Floris of the Time Patrol to Manse Everard:

"'You remember, at the overthrow of Nero, civil war broke out. The year of the three Emperors - Galba, Otho, Vitellius - then, in the Near East, Vespasian - devastating the Empire as they contended."

-Poul Anderson, "Star of the Sea" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, December 2010), pp. 467-640 AT 2, p. 488.

Thus, two sentences in Time Patrol summarize important information about five of Suetonius' "twelve Caesars." 

Lycius the dwarf writes in his memoirs that:

"Augustus's will set the bounds of the Empire; forbade any expansion."

(Poul Anderson mentions this Augustan policy in "The Discovery of the Past." See Perspectives.)

Lycius continues:

"And in his will Augustus also appointed Tiberius as his successor. Our divine rulers have, since then, been successively evil, mad, foolish and -- now -- all three."

-Neil Gaiman, "August" IN Gaiman, The Sandman: Fables And Reflections (New York, 1993), pp. 98-122 AT p. 122, panel 4.

I think that Lycius means:

Tiberius, evil;

Caligula, mad;

Claudius, foolish;

Nero, all three.

Thus, Janne and Lycius summarize information about nine of the Caesars.