Caligula's government, began in 37 with all sorts of good omens. The young Emperor seemed tolerant and kind, even promised to share power with the senators who had been ignored by their predecessors. He also did his best to befriend the rabble, organizing public events expensive.
But at 8 months suffered a serious disease that disturbs his mental balance and transformed his character. Since then, little more than 3 years left in power became a series of heinous and senseless crimes. Ordered by the most trivial reasons execution of friends and relatives, reaffirmed his tyranny by terror and had incestuous relations with his sister Drusilla.
to get the money he spent at close range condemned for treason to wealthy men and confiscated their property. At the height of her madness, called Consul his horse.
There were moments of lucidity, in which he declared his desire to retire to clarify their thoughts, but the madness was stronger.
So many abuses of the laws, tradition and common sense inspired in many the desire to kill the tyrant. Cornelius Lentulus Getulism General and Senator Marcus Aemilius Lepidus tried without success. Shortly thereafter, several freedmen, tribune and prefect of the Praetorian Guard during the Games agreed to assassinate Palatine, which took place in the imperial palace. Casio
Chaerea, who commanded a praetorian cohort, assumed the mission of giving the first blow. On January 24, 1941, at noon, headed to lunch Caligula and stopped to admire a young Asians who were preparing to go onstage. Casio Chaerea I take the time to hurt him in the back shouting "Hoc Age" (below), made the sacrificial ritual itself religious. While the soldiers kept people away, they hit the other conspirators has 30 stab wounds.
But at 8 months suffered a serious disease that disturbs his mental balance and transformed his character. Since then, little more than 3 years left in power became a series of heinous and senseless crimes. Ordered by the most trivial reasons execution of friends and relatives, reaffirmed his tyranny by terror and had incestuous relations with his sister Drusilla.
to get the money he spent at close range condemned for treason to wealthy men and confiscated their property. At the height of her madness, called Consul his horse.
There were moments of lucidity, in which he declared his desire to retire to clarify their thoughts, but the madness was stronger.
So many abuses of the laws, tradition and common sense inspired in many the desire to kill the tyrant. Cornelius Lentulus Getulism General and Senator Marcus Aemilius Lepidus tried without success. Shortly thereafter, several freedmen, tribune and prefect of the Praetorian Guard during the Games agreed to assassinate Palatine, which took place in the imperial palace. Casio
Chaerea, who commanded a praetorian cohort, assumed the mission of giving the first blow. On January 24, 1941, at noon, headed to lunch Caligula and stopped to admire a young Asians who were preparing to go onstage. Casio Chaerea I take the time to hurt him in the back shouting "Hoc Age" (below), made the sacrificial ritual itself religious. While the soldiers kept people away, they hit the other conspirators has 30 stab wounds.
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