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Here is a list of Atrocities and Tortures carried out by [[roman::Caligula]]

==Tortures==
===Beaten of Flayed===
*Writers at the Grecian games at Syracuse and Attic plays at Lyons in Gaul were beaten with a rod or thrown in twater if their praises did not meet with Caligula's approval.
''[Performers]...were forced to blot out what they had written with a sponge or their tongue, unless they preferred to be beaten with a rod, or plunged over head and ears into the nearest river




==Victims of Atrocities occasioning Death==

===Suffication/Strangulation===
*[[roman::Tiberius]] . He allegedly sufficated and strangled Tiberius, his step-father as he lay dying.
''He caused a pillow to be thrown upon him , squeezing him by the throat, at the same time, with his own hand'' 



===Crucification===
*[[Freedman]]. Freedman of Tiberius who witnessed his death at the hands of Caligula
''One of his freedmen crying out at this horrid barbarity, he was immediately crucified''

===Poisoning===
*[[roman::Antonia]], his grandmother may have been poisoned by Caligula
''Indignities of this kind, and ill usage, were the cause of her death; but some think he also gave her poison''


===Stabbings and Decapitations===
*His cousin [[roman::Tiberius Gemellus]] had previously been made joint heir by Tiberius. Caligula had him murdered on the pre-text that he was plotting against him in [[date::1800]]AD 
''His brother Tiberius, who had no expectation of any violence, was suddenly dispatched by a military tribune sent by his order for that purpose.''
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