The Reign of Caligula
This short text is an excerpt from Book VI, Chapter iii of the Old
English translation of the polemical History in Reply to the
Pagans by the fifth-century Roman historian Paulus Orosius. For a
complete text of this work, see Janet Bately, The Old English
Orosius, Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series, 6
(London, 1980).
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