Caligula Quotes

Question 1

Josephus 19.11

Answer 1

Gaius […] threw gold and silver pieces of money among the people

Question 2

Suetonius 37

Answer 2

In reckless extravagance he outdid the prodigals of all time in ingenuity

Question 3

Josephus 19.25

Answer 3

When their clamors increased, he sent soldiers […] and put them to death

Question 4

Dio 59.9.4

Answer 4

He published, as Augustus had done, all the accounts of the public funds

Question 5

Dio 59.28

Answer 5

The wives of the foremost men as well as the children of the most aristocratic families that he shut up in those rooms and subjected to outrage

He cut into the temple of Castor and Pollux in the Roman Forum and made through it an approach to the Palace running directly between the two statues

Question 6

Alston

Answer 6

He attempted to build a consensus in the Senate […] deferring to their authority

Question 7

Suetonius 30.1

Answer 7

Let them hate me so long as they fear me

Question 8

Josephus 19.10

Answer 8

Some of the conspirators being senators; and some of equestrian order, and as many of the soldiers as were made acquainted with it

Question 9

Suetonius 16

Answer 9

Gaius used to give him (Chaerea) ‘Priapus’ or ‘Venus’

Question 10

Dio 59.4.4

Answer 10

Ordered temples to be erected and sacrificed to be offered to himself as a to a god

Question 11

Suetonius 22

Answer 11

At night he used to constantly invite the […] moon to his embraces and to his bed

Question 12

Dio 59.26

Answer 12

When someone called him a demigod and others a God, he fairly lost his head

Question 13

Seneca 3.19

Answer 13

Gaius was a mad beast, and such brutalities were his daily bread and butter