person
Herennius Macer
also: Herennius Macer
A man who, Seneca reports, drew Caligula's anger merely by greeting him as 'Gaius,' an illustration of the emperor's readiness to find insult everywhere.
Reading notes
- On the Firmness of the Wise Man §18.4 Herennius Macer
A man who drew Caligula's anger merely by greeting him as 'Gaius'; an instance of the emperor finding insult in everything.