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| | Biographical info on Gaius ("Caligula") (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus, known by his nickname of "Little Boots." One of Rome's most notorious rulers. |
 | | Gaius was born on 31 August, A.D. 12, probably at the Julio-Claudian resort of Antium (modern Anzio), the third of six children born to Augustus's adopted grandson, Germanicus, and Augustus's granddaughter, Agrippina. |
 | | As a baby he accompanied his parents on military campaigns in the north and was shown to the troops wearing a miniature soldier's outfit, including the hob-nailed sandal called caliga, whence the nickname by which posterity remembers him.[[2]] His childhood was not a happy one, spent amid an atmosphere of paranoia, suspicion, and murder. |
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