… and the relevant part that’s been left out is that Caligula means “little boot”

So he got his name from the caligae, the roman soldiers sandals? TIL.

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Gaius was a really popular Roman name, Gaius Julius Caesar, Gaius Octavius, etc.

“I am alive!” dies

I misread the first line and saw Gus instead of Gaius.

Now I wish there had been a horny Emperor Gus.

And Herod’s first wife was called Doris.

Such devastation!

With a name like gay-us he would have been bullied relentlessly as a kid, no wonder he changed it.