>To be true to that Caligula myth that he
>was going to appoint his horse as Consul,
>I think the Lamborghini would have to be
>installed as the 'Head of the Senate'
>today:-). Regards, Walter
tile wrote;
>..caligola appointed his horse as a senator
Suetonius is probably the best source for this, writing ~69yrs after
Caligula's assassination.
And he says it at the very end of the paragraph about Caligula's horse
Incitatus.
"and it is also said that he planned to make him consul."
Most likely it was just a myth or urban legend of the time but it could
also have been something he just said in jest or it's possibly true that
the crazy Caligula actually did plan on making his horse Consul?
Either way the horse never got either job :-).
'Suetonius caligula horse senator' gets ~700 hits in google.
'Suetonius caligula horse consul' gets over 10,000. Regards, Walter
>He used to send his soldiers on the day
>before the games and order silence in the
>neighborhood, to prevent the horse
>Incitatus from being disturbed. Besides a
>stall of marble, a manger of ivory, purple
>blankets and a collar of precious stones,
>he even gave this horse a house, a troop
>of slaves and furniture, for the more
>elegant entertainment of the guests
>invited in his name; and it is also said that
>he planned to make him consul.
..And Paradise Was Lost...like teardrops in the rain...
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