Cassius Chaerea

Family: Roman · Role: tribune of the pretorian guards · First appears: Caligula 56

Life events

• Cassius Chaerea joined a conspiracy to attack Caius as he returned from the Palatine games.(Caligula 56)
  • With: Caligula
  • “The conspirators having resolved to fall upon him as he returned at noon from the Palatine games, Cassius Chaerea, tribune of the pretorian guards, claimed the part of making the onset.”

Caligula 56

• enemies with Caligula “The conspirators having resolved to fall upon him as he returned at noon from the Palatine games, Cassius Chaerea, tribune of the pretorian guards, claimed the part of making the onset. This Chaerea was now an elderly man, and had been often reproached by Caius for effeminacy.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.