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** He got started very early as well. Livia, when asking Martina the poisoner how she murdered Germanicus, is genuinely disturbed to learn that it was actually ''Caligula'' who poisoned his own father (albeit manipulated by Martina) in an effort to prove that he was a god. "He's not a god, he's a ''monster!"''



** In the same episode and almost the same scene, Sejanus' children, a daughter and son -- neither of whom is over the age of 10 -- are murdered by soldiers. Roman culture viewed killing a virgin as abhorrent, and one of the soldiers points out this fact to Macro. Macro's response is "Then make sure she's ''not'' a virgin when you kill her. Now '''get on with it."''' Suetonius wrote that this was the practice under Tiberius when executing virgins. It's mentioned by Claudius' wife that the soldiers who killed Sejanus' children raped his daughter before killing her, and dressed the boy in his 'coming of age' robes (so that he was legally an adult) before doing the same. Apicata killed herself after finding out what was done to her children's bodies.''Ugh.''

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** In the same episode and almost the same scene, Sejanus' children, a daughter and son -- neither of whom is over the age of 10 -- are murdered by soldiers. Roman culture viewed killing a virgin as abhorrent, and one of the soldiers points out this fact to Macro. Macro's response is "Then make sure she's ''not'' a virgin when you kill her. Now '''get on with it."''' Suetonius wrote that this was the practice under Tiberius when executing virgins. It's mentioned by Claudius' wife that the soldiers who killed Sejanus' children raped his daughter before killing her, and dressed the boy in his 'coming of age' robes (so that he was legally an adult) before doing the same. Apicata killed herself after finding out what was done to her children's bodies. ''Ugh.''

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