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Open original source ↗“Having squandered enormous sums, & emptied all the treasury coffer, Caligula turned his attention to pillage, resorting to all sorts of false accusations, auctions, & imposts….
Once in the course of gambling he summoned the tax collectors & ordered them to seize the property of several Gauls passing buy, remarking, ‘While you gentlemen have been playing for a few denarii, I have won 150 million.’”
-Suetonius, Life of Caligula 121 AD
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