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Caligula, Incitatus, and the Consulship
Classical Quarterly 64 (2014), 772-777
The famous allegation that Caligula had wished to appoint his horse Incitatus ('Rapid') as consul represents a misunderstanding of a joke that he had made at the expense of Asinius Celer, suffect consul in AD38, based on the fact that his nomen gentilicium derives from the noun asinus (‘ass’) and the his cognomen from the adjective celer (‘swift’).
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