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Caligula
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Caligula as in:  the Roman emperor

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  • One of them said, "Taggart can afford to do it, if he pleases" and the other said something about the horse of some Roman emperor named Caligula.†  (source)
  • I laid it, dead, on my gauntlet, and Caligula didn't refuse to come but he wouldn't eat.†  (source)
  • and, as Caligula, had caroused with the green-shirted jockeys in their stables and supped in an ivory manger with a jewel-frontleted horse;†  (source)
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  • I had read Goldsmith's History of Rome, and had formed my opinion of Nero, Caligula, &c.†  (source)
  • Caligula made a horse a consul; Charles II made a knight of a sirloin.†  (source)
  • Rome was doubtless a very amusing place in the days of Caligula, but it has sadly fallen off since.†  (source)
  • My dead father, who liked a joke, peace to his bones, used to say, talking of our ancestors, that the ancient stock of the Simeonov-Pischins was descended from that identical horse that Caligula made a senator.... [Sits] But the trouble is, I've no money!†  (source)
  • Caligula or Nero, those treasure-seekers, those desirers of the impossible, would have accorded to the poor wretch, in exchange for his wealth, the liberty he so earnestly prayed for.†  (source)
  • The nuns at St. Agnes taught us that Diocletian was a huge villain, right along with Nero and Caligula.†  (source)
  • and, as Caligula, had caroused with the green-shirted jockeys in their stables, and supped in an ivory manger with a jewel-frontleted horse;†  (source)
  • It was brought in by Caligula.†  (source)
  • I'll pick up the lizard and call Caligula back.†  (source)
  • The Ciceronian period, which hardly sufficed for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula.†  (source)
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