Woods, D.

2014

November

Classical Quarterly

Caligula, Incitatus, and the Consulship

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Caligula, consul, horse, ass, Asinius, Claudius

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The allegation that Caligula wanted to make his horse Incitatus ('Speedy') a consul probably originated as a misunderstanding of some critical remarks of his at the appointment of Asinius Celer ('Ass-like Swifty') as suffect consul in AD38.

Cambridge, UK

0009-8388

http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A94XKfeP

10.1017/S0009838814000470