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Life Of Caesar

Caligula #14 – The Great Purge

Life Of Caesar

Cameron Reilly & Ray Harris

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4.4594 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Caligula built a 3-mile long bridge over the Bay of Naples. Why? So he could ride over it to prove someone wrong. Then he marries his third and last wife, Caesonia. Then he fires two consuls for not celebrating his birthday and starts a general purge of governors who are called back to Rome and, in some cases, charged with majestas. There's conspiracy in the air.

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0:00.0

Porte! All right!

0:03.0

Yeah, boy!

0:16.0

Oh, this bitch up! Oh, I'm a panza.

0:27.2

It's time to go out, kick some ass and do whatever you can to inflict pain.

0:33.1

Because you're that good.

0:35.1

Because you're that good.

0:37.4

Welcome back to Gallicular, everybody. Episode 14. Get your that good. It's your dad good.

0:40.0

Welcome back to Gallicular, everybody.

0:41.9

Episode 14.

0:50.0

Ray, I don't know if you've ever had the urge to build a bridge.

0:53.4

That used to be a thing, right?

0:55.8

People used to say, look, just build a bridge and get over it I don't hear that much I don't know is that still a thing that people still say that

0:59.7

well people don't get over things anymore so why should that expression still be around

1:04.0

everybody takes everything personally and they hold onto it forever so that's the new reality

1:08.3

well according to cassie's dio, Caligula, Booty Tang, Build a Bridge.

1:17.0

Just after that big speech, the Senate offered him an ovation for his clemency, and he was like,

1:24.9

you don't get to give me ovations.

1:28.0

I give myself ovations.

1:30.1

You're fucking nobody.

1:33.0

Particularly after I've just read all of the, you know, letters where you condemned your

1:40.4

colleagues and my family to Tiberius and Cianus.

1:45.8

According to Dio, Gaius, however, did not care at all for that kind of triumph

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