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Headword:
Καλλιγόλας
Adler number: kappa,216
Translated headword: Caligula
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Thus did they call Gaius, the emperor of the Romans, since from early boyhood he grew up spending a lot of time in the military camps and would wear soldier’s shoes. From the “
caligae”,[1] therefore, they named him Caligula.[2]
Or Gaius [was called] Caligula on account of his birth in the military camps; so says
Aelian in his work
On Divine Influences.[3]
Καλλιγόλας: οὕτως ἐκαλεῖτο Γάϊος, ὁ βασιλεὺς Ῥωμαίων, ἐπειδὴ ἐκ μικρᾶς ἡλικίας τὰ πολλὰ ἐν τῷ στρατοπέδῳ ἐτρέφετο καὶ τοῖς στρατιωτικοῖς ἐχρῆτο ὑποδήμασιν. ἐκ τῶν καλλίγων οὖν Καλλιγούλαν αὐτὸν ὠνόμασαν. ἢ Καλλιγόλας ὁ Γάϊος, διὰ τὸ ἐν στρατοπέδῳ γεννηθῆναι: ὥς φησιν Αἰλιανὸς ἐν τῷ Περὶ θείων ἐναργειῶν.
Notes:
Gaius Caesar or Caligula was the third Roman emperor, ruling from 37 to 41 AD. See the DIR article at web address 1 for more (and OCD(3) s.v. Gaius (1)).
For more on Caligula in the Suda see
gamma 11 and
gamma 12. The following entries also mention him:
alpha 3198,
alpha 3420,
delta 1351,
iota 503,
phi 448.
[1] Soldiers' boots or sandals.
[2] Literally “Little boot”
[3] = Claudius
Aelian (2nd to 3rd century) fr.24 Hercher.
Athenaeus (2nd to 3rd century) seems to have employed
Aelian here since he uses the same wording and word order (
διὰ τὸ ἐν στρατοπέδῳ γεννηθῆναι ) when discussing Caligula’s birth in the camps (Deipnosophists 4.148D).
Eustathius (12th century) appears to adopt the story from
Athenaeus in his commentary on
Homer,
Iliad (2.810). For Latin sources which
Aelian may have known, see Tacitus
Annales 1.41 (web address 2),
Suetonius Caligula 8.1 and 9.1 (web address 3), and
Seneca the Younger
Dialogi 2.18.4.
R. Hercher, ed. 1866 (repr. 1971). Claudii Aeliani de natura animalium libri xvii, varia historia, epistolae, fragmenta, vol. 2, Teubner: Lepizig (repr. Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt: Graz)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Web address 3
Keywords: biography; clothing; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Abram Ring on 17 September 2005@12:48:55.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (cosmetics, status) on 22 September 2005@17:43:21.
Catharine Roth (added links) on 23 September 2005@01:17:54.
David Whitehead (tweaked headword and translation; small additions to notes) on 25 September 2005@04:56:03.
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