person
Cassius Chaerea
Chaerea
also: Chaerea, Cassius Chaerea
Tribune of the praetorian guard whom Caligula taunted with effeminacy by giving him obscene watchwords; he struck the first blow in the emperor's assassination in AD 41.
Reading notes
- On the Firmness of the Wise Man §18.3 Chaerea
Cassius Chaerea, tribune of the praetorian guard, taunted by Caligula with effeminate watchwords; he struck the first blow in the assassination of AD 41.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §1.4.7 Chaerea
Cassius Chaerea, tribune of the Praetorian Guard who led the conspiracy that assassinated Caligula in AD 41 — the emperor 'offered his own neck' to him as he had made others offer theirs.