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Originally Posted by HarryT
Latin can be fun: I'm sure you've heard of the emperor "Caligula" - he was the one famous for being mad as a hatter. Did you know that "Caligula" was just a nickname, and means "little boots"? It was a name the army gave him when he was a very small boy and used to accompany his father on military campaigns dressed up in a miniature soldier's uniform. Isn't that a fun thing to know?  |
Yes, I actually did know that. I know a lot of strange things about Latin and about the Roman Empire (being a history nut), and I can even read some Latin (as long as it is enough like one of the modern Latin-based languages).
The whacko's real name was Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus. His father, Germanicus, probably would have made a great emperor ... he was supposedly a very good man. His son?? Not so much.