“On one occasion the people cheered the team he opposed; he cried angrily: "I wish all you Romans had only one neck!"”

— Sueton , book The Twelve Caesars

Source: The Twelve Caesars, Gaius Caligula, Ch. 30

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Infensus turbae faventi adversus studium suum exclamavit: "Utinam p. R. unam cervicem haberet!"

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Roman historian 70–126

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