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Caligula by Suetonius
'Because of his baldness and hairiness, he announced it was a capital offence for anyone either to look down on him as he passed or to mention goats in any context.’

The biography of the brutal, crazed and incestuous Roman Emperor Caligula, who tried to appoint his own horse consul. 
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64 pages first pub 121 (editions)

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