The name Caligula means "a little shoe," and was the pet name given to him by the soldiers of his father, in whose camp he was born.] [Footnote 24: Josephus adds some curious and interesting particulars to the story of this Herod and his death which are not mentioned in the narrative of St.Luke (_Antiq_.xix.7, 8.

Jahn, _Hebr.

Commonwealth_, sec.

cxxvi.)] At last health and strength failed Tiberius, but not his habitual dissimulation.

He retained the same unbending soul, and by his fixed countenance and measured language, sometimes by an artificial affability, he tried to conceal his approaching end.