Susan in NC’s Reviews > I, Claudius > Status Update
Susan in NC
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“I was being got out of the way.While Germanicus was in the City I would not be allowed to return, and all my letters home would be opened. So I never had an opportunity of telling Germanicus what I had been saving up for him so long. On the other hand, Germanicus had his talk with Tiberius. He told him that he knew that Postumus’s banishment had been due to a cruel plot on Livia’s part—he had positive proof of it.”
— Apr 03, 2026 02:26PM
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Susan in NC
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“… the next day we lavished praise on Caligula as a sincere and pious ruler and voted annual sacrifices to his Clemency. What else could we do? He had the Army at his back, and power of life and death over us, and until someone was bold and clever enough to make a successful conspiracy against his life all that we could do was to humour him and hope for the best.”
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Susan in NC
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“The money went faster and faster and at last Caligula decided to make economies. He said one day…’What is the use of putting men in prison for forgery and theft and breaches of the peace?…I’ll visit the prisons to-day and look into the matter.” He did. He weeded out the men whom he considered the most hardened criminals, and had them executed.”
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Susan in NC
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“ He was beginning to be unpopular. That the crowd always likes a holiday is a common saying, but when the whole year becomes one long holiday, and nobody has time for attending to his business, and pleasure becomes compulsory, then it is a different matter. Chariot races grew wearisome.”
— 2 hours, 39 min ago
Susan in NC
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“ “Are you the only butt they have?” “The favourite one. The official one.” “Claudius, you’re luckier than you realize. Guard your appointment jealously. Don’t let anyone usurp it.” “What do you mean, girl?” “I mean that people don’t kill their butts. They are cruel to them, they frighten them, they rob them, but they don’t kill them.” I said: “Calpurnia, you are very clever…”
— 2 hours, 45 min ago
Susan in NC
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“ The people of Rome were still happy enough. Caligula continued giving them a good time with theatrical shows and sword-fights and wild-beasts hunts and chariot-races and largesse thrown from the Oration Platform or from the upper windows of the Palace. What marriages he contracted or dissolved, or what courtiers he murdered, they did not much care.”
— 2 hours, 57 min ago
Susan in NC
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“ Calpurnia, a prostitute and the daughter of a prostitute, was more intelligent and loyal and kind-hearted and straightforward than any of the four noblewomen I have married. I soon began to take her into my confidence about my private affairs and I may say at once that I never regretted having done so.”
— 19 hours, 56 min ago
Susan in NC
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“ It amused Caligula at first to encourage the absurd misconception that everyone but myself and my mother and Macro and one or two others had of his character, and even to perform a number of acts in keeping with it. He wanted also to make sure of his position.”
— 20 hours, 1 min ago
Susan in NC
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“ Tiberius was becoming more grasping than ever: he expected rich men to leave him at least half their estates in their wills, and if they were found not to have done so he declared the wills technically invalid because of some legal flaw or other, and took charge of the entire estate himself; the heirs getting nothing. He spent practically no money on public works…He paid the armies regularly, that was all.”
— 20 hours, 23 min ago
Susan in NC
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“…she told me everything that I wanted to know except about the haunting of Germanicus’s house at Antioch. She repeated that she had not ordered it... I saw that it was useless to press her further, so I thanked her for her patience with me and at last took the oath by my head to do all in my power to make her a Goddess.”
— 22 hours, 19 min ago
Susan in NC
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“But I was talking of Tiberius’s good deeds, not his weaknesses: and really, from the point of view of the Empire as a whole, he had been for the last twelve years a wise and just ruler.”
— 22 hours, 44 min ago
