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When he was yet a mere boy, before he arrived at the age of puberty, during the celebration of the Circensian Games,A.U.C. 806
he performed his part in the Trojan play with a degree of firmness which gained him great applause. In the eleventh year of his age,
he was adopted by Claudius, and placed under the tuition of Anneus Seneca,
Seneca. the celebrated philosophical writer. had been released from exile in Corsica, shortly before the death of Tiberius. He afterwards fell a sacrifice to the jealousy and cruelty of his former pupil, Nero.
who had been made a senator.
It is said, that Seneca dreamt the night after, that he was giving a lesson to Caius Caesar.Caligula Nero soon verified his dream, betraying the cruelty of his disposition in every way he could.
For he attempted to persuade his father that his brother, Britannicus, was nothing but a changeling, because the latter had saluted him, notwithstanding his adoption, by the name of ,Enobarbus, as usual.
When his aunt, Lepida, w
Nor did he proceed with less cruelty against those who were not of his family.
A blazing star, which is vulgarly supposed to portend destruction to kings and princes, appeared above the horizon several nights successively.
This comet, as well as one which appeared the year in which Claudius died, is described by Seneca, Natural. Quast. VII. c. xvii. and xix. and by Pliny, II. c. xxxv.
He felt great anxiety on account of this phenomenon, as being informed by one Babilus, an astrologer, that princes were used to expiate such omens by the sacrifice of illustrious persons, and so avert the danger foreboded to their own persons, by bringing it on the heads of their chief men, he resolved on the destruction of the principal nobility in Rome.
He was the more encouraged to this, because he had some plausible pretence for carrying it into execution, from the discovery of two conspiracies against him; the former and more dangerous of which was that formed by PisoSee Tacitus, Annal. xv. 48-55.