of the Acts.

On one occasion, when Caius had been abusing the dictator Sulla, Tiberius scornfully remarked that he would have all Sulla's vices and none of his virtues; and on another, after a quarrel between Caius and his cousin, the Emperor embraced with tears his young grandson, and said to the frowning Caius, with one of those strange flashes of prevision of which we sometimes read in history.

"Why are you so eager?
Some day you will kill this boy, and some one else will murder you." There were some who believed that Tiberius deliberately cherished the intention of allowing Caius to succeed him, in order that the Roman world might relent towards his own memory under the tyranny of a worse monster than himself.

Even the Romans, who looked up to the family of Germanicus with extraordinary affection, seem early to have lost all hopes about Caius.

They looked for little improvement under the government of a vicious boy, "ignorant of all things, or nurtured only in the worst," who would be likely to reflect the influence of Macro, and present the spectacle of a worse Tiberius under a worse Sejanus.
[Footnote 23: We shall call him Caius, because it is as little correct to write of him by the _sobriquet_ Caligula as it would be habitually to write of our kings Edward or John as Longshanks or Lackland.