Chaerea

Family: conspirators · Role: assassin · First appears: Caligula 58

Life events

• Chaerea and Cornelius Sabinus attacked and killed Caius in a conspiratorial assassination.(Caligula 58)
  • With: Caligula Cornelius Sabinus
  • “Some say, that, whilst he was speaking to the boys, Chaerea came behind him, and gave him a heavy blow on the neck with his sword, first crying out, ‘Take this:’ that then a tribune, by name Cornelius Sabinus, another of the conspirators, ran him through the breast. Others say, that the crowd being kept at a distance by some centurions who were in the plot, Sabinus came, according to custom, for the word, and that Caius gave him ‘Jupiter,’ upon which Chaerea cried out, ‘Be it so!’ and then, on his looking round, clove one of his jaws with a blow. As he lay on the ground, crying out that he was still alive, the rest dispatched him with thirty wounds.”

Caligula 58

• enemies with Caligula “Some say, that, whilst he was speaking to the boys, Chaerea came behind him, and gave him a heavy blow on the neck with his sword, first crying out, ‘Take this:’”

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