Gaius Caesar
historical figure · 7 works · 10 mentions · 11 anchored passages
Caesar · Caius Caesar · Gaius
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Letters to Lucilius
Roman emperor (Caligula) cited as an example of the instability of fortune, both executioner and victim.
Gaius Caesar ordered Lepidus to offer his neck to the tribune Dexter, and himself offered his to Chaerea.
Gaius Caesar, as a man was passing along the Latin road, when one of the prisoners with a beard hanging down to his breast begged to be put to death, said, "Why, are you alive now?
The grammarian Apion, who went about all Greece in the days of Gaius Caesar and was adopted into the name of Homer by all the cities, used to say that Homer, when he had finished both his works, the Iliad and the Odyssey, added a beginning to his poem, in which he embraced the whole Trojan war.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Grandson of Augustus, whose campaign in the Arabian Gulf turned up evidence of earlier Spanish shipwrecks there.
Caio Caesare Augusti filio in Arabico sinu res gerente signa navium ex Hispaniensibus naufragiis agnita.
There is also much to substantiate the belief that the inhabitants of Cadiz were well acquainted long ago with this route, because when Gaius Caesar, the son of Augustus, held command in the Arabian gulf, pieces were found of shipwrecks recognized as Spanish.
Tusculan Disputations
Roman noble praised for humanity and charm, killed on Cinna's orders
but Cinna ordered the head of his colleague the consul Gnaeus Octavius to be cut off, and of Publius Crassus, Lucius Caesar, most noble men, whose virtue had been known at home and in war, of Marcus Antonius, the most eloquent of all whom I have heard, of Gaius Caesar, in whom there seems to me to have been a pattern of humanity, of wit, of charm, of grace.
Meditations
Julius Caesar, cited as an example that conquest does not exempt one from death.
Alexander, Pompey, and Gaius Caesar, after so often razing whole cities to the ground and cutting down in pitched battle myriads of horse and foot, themselves at last departed from life.
On Anger
Roman emperor depicted as inflicting cruel punishment on a courtier's son and then compelling the grieving father to dine with him.
Caesar drank to him a measure and set a guard over him;
Gaius Caesar, having held in custody the son of Pastor, a distinguished Roman knight, offended at his elegance and his too carefully arranged hair, when the father begged that he grant him his son's life, ordered him at once to be led off to execution, as if reminded of the punishment;
On Benefits
Roman emperor (Caligula) described as bloodthirsty, cited as an example of power owed to ancestral merit rather than his own
"Why did it set Gaius Caesar over the world, a man most greedy of human blood, which he ordered to flow in his sight no otherwise than if he were going to catch it with his mouth?
On the Shortness of Life
Roman emperor (Caligula) whose reckless extravagance, including bridging the sea with ships, nearly caused famine in Rome.
What feelings, then, had those to whom the care of the public corn supply had been entrusted, and who were ready to face stones, steel, and fire—and Gaius?
Only the other day, within those few days in which Gaius Caesar perished—if any feeling remains to those below, taking it most grievously that the Roman people had survived him—there was left food for seven or at most eight days, while he was joining ships into bridges and playing with the resources of the empire;