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Headword:
Γάϊος
Καῖσαρ
Adler number: gamma,11
Translated headword: Gaius Caesar
Vetting Status: high
Translation: who was nicknamed Caligula.[1] [He wrote an] Art of Rhetoric, in Latin.
Greek Original:Γάϊος Καῖσαρ, ὃς ἐπεκλήθη Καλλιγόλας. Ῥητορικὴν τέχνην Ῥωμαϊκῶς.
Notes:
[1] Emperor 37-41 CE. RE Gaius (133); OCD3 Gaius (1). De Imperatoribus Romanis entry at web address 1. He receives more extensive treatment in the next entry,
gamma 12.
[2] Nothing else is known of this work, although Caligula's skill and interest in rhetoric is commented on by
Suetonius Life of Gaius 53,
Josephus Jewish Antiquities 19.208 and Tacitus
Annales 13.3.5. Confusion with a different Gaius is not to be excluded.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; history; rhetoric
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 22 June 2000@14:46:45.
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