He is better known as CALIGULA,--a nickname given him by the soldiers from the buskins he wore.

He was twenty-five years of age when he began to reign, of weak constitution, and subject to fits.

After squandering his own wealth, he killed rich citizens, and confiscated their property.

He seemed to revel in bloodshed, and is said to have expressed a wish that the Roman people had but one neck, that he might slay them all at a blow.

He was passionately fond of adulation, and often repaired to the Capitoline temple in the guise of a god, and demanded worship.