Furthermore, it is well known how much he thrived in their love and graces by this manner of edification, especially when after the death of Augustus, as they became seditious and rushed headfirst into madness, they were stilled by the sight of him alone.ĭuring his youth, he received a prophecy from Tiberius' soothsayer, a Roman astrologer named Thrasyllus, who told him he had as much chance of becoming emperor as he did of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae, meaning it was impossible.Ĭaligula's father later died while on a campaign in Syria, on which he had accompanied him the rumor was that it was by the treachery of Tiberius, under the supervision and aid of Gnaeus Piso, who at that same time was governor of Syria, and who, believing it necessary to find fault with the father and the son as if it were plainly the only thing to be done, had assailed Germanicus with bitterness and harshest of words and deeds, even when the general was ill. He received the cognomen "Caligula" jestingly from the legionaries, for he was raised amongst them and dressed in the garments of a soldier, including in a type of footwear called caligae. By the age of three, he began accompanying his father Germanicus on the general's military campaigns. His mother was Agrippina, the granddaughter of the first emperor, Augustus. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was born on the day before the Kalends of September in the year 12 AD under the consulship of his father Germanicus and Gaius Fonteius Capito. 1.2 Death of Father and Becoming Emperor.
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