Gaius

NOUN
  1. Roman Emperor who succeeded Tiberius and whose uncontrolled passions resulted in manifest insanity; noted for his cruelty and tyranny; was assassinated (12-41)
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  • When the legions had marched into camp outside Verona, Catulus Caesar knew the first thing he had to do was send word posthaste to Rome of the disaster up the Athesis; if he didn’t, he suspected Sulla would via Gaius Marius, so it was important that his be the first version Rome absorbed. The First Man in Rome
  • Gaius embraced his brother warmly as the men stood on the dock where two biremes, rigged and prepared to sail, were moored.
  • Ahead of him Sulla could see Gaius Julius Caesar’s women tittupping along on the high cork soles and higher cork heels of their winter shoes, sweet little feet elevated above the water in the middens. The First Man in Rome
  • “It will not suffer milk to cruddle in the stomach, and therefore it is put in milk that is drunke… Spearmint” Gaius Plinius Secundus - Naturalis Historia 77CE Archive 2007-09-01
  • Elected tribune in 123, Gaius wanted to transform Rome into a democracy along Hellenic lines.
  • Nothing in his uncle Gaius so excited his envy and admiration as the fact that he had in so short a time run through the vast wealth which Tiberius had left him.
  • There are alternations as regard falsehood and simulation in Gaius and Flaccus.
  • Rarely does a character in an ensemble drama get the kind of sendoff that Brian "Smash" Williams Gaius Charles was given as he heads off for Texas A&M, and it was easily the finest hour of TV I've seen in the past year or so. Archive 2009-02-01
  • As tribune, Gaius reaffirmed Tiberius' Land Act and saw to it that it was finally implemented.
  • Augustus himself owed much of his rise to his adoption as a seventeen-year-old by his great-uncle Julius Caesar.62 In 13 BC, once Gaius and Lucius had reached the age of seven and four, respectively, the Roman mint issued a coin featuring the emperor on one side, and on the other a tiny fleshy-featured bust of Julia, her hair neatly arranged in the nodus, flanked by the heads of her two infant boys. Caesars’ Wives
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