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A statue from first-century Pompeii
          showing Caligula on horseback.
          The emperor’s favourite horse was
          called Incitatus, and it was said that
          Caligula planned to make it a consul


























































                                                     “Nature produced

                                                  Caligula, it was said,
                                                  to demonstrate just

                                                     how far unlimited
                                                     vice can go when

                                                         combined with
                                                      unlimited power”



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