Claudius succeeded him

Usage examples of caligula.

Caligula fancied himself a connoisseur and was also sentimentally attached to Apelles, the Philistine tragic actor, who wrote many of the pieces in which he played.

One piece which Caligula admired particularly-because he had made suggestions which Apelles had incorporated in his part-was played over and over again until everyone hated the sight and sound of it.

Caligula took private lessons in elocution and dancing from Apelles and Mnester and after a time frequently appeared on the stage in their parts.

When he relapsed into unconsciousness and gave no further signs of life Caligula had quietly pulled the ring off and was now strutting about, flashing it in the faces of everyone he met and accepting congratulations and homage.

He invented certain new kinds of vice, even going beyond the perverts used by the debauchees of old, and he was well acquainted with all the arrangements of Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero.

Caligula or Nero, those treasure-seekers, those desirers of the impossible, would have accorded to the poor wretch, in exchange for his wealth, the liberty he so earnestly prayed for.

Caligula, who had already informed the Senate of his total subjugation of Germany, now wrote to say that King Cymbeline had sent his son to acknowledge Roman suzerainty over the entire British archipelago from the Scilly Islands to the Orkneys.

Victory was one marking where the Imperial Battleship Caligula, its Admiral Mason, and over three thousand loyal Imperial sailors had been.

Just as had happened with the Caligula, beings who wore the same uniform Sten had worn, beings he might have served with or under or drank with in gin joints, were dead.

Thus a Trajan and an Antoninus, a Nero and a Caligula, have all met with the belief of posterity.

Even his foes had to admit that he had stabilized the Empire after the mad Caligula, and had also added dramatically to its boundaries.

Seneca and Burrus gave up any hope of restraining him, but Sabinus saved the day with his suggestion: have Nero manage his horses out of public view across the Tiber in the Vatican valley, where there was a hippodrome that Caligula had begun but never finished.

His only real success in life had come in Britain, and even earlier when he served as street commissioner, Caligula had personally pelted him with mud from the gutter as reminder to keep the streets clean.

I should never have put in writing, -- hoping that it might not be known that he was emperor of the Romans --, were it not that before him this same imperial office had had a Caligula, a Nero, and a Vitellius.

When Caligula finally checked out they melted down the entire currency to wipe his face off the loathed dough.