Roman emperor Caligula had a low opinion of the Roman public. He sometimes would show the finger (that’s right, people were flipping the bird in ancient times) to people at banquets. At the chariot races once, when he heard the crowd cheering for a chariot team that he did not support, he leaped up in his box and yelled: “I wish all you Romans had but one neck!” At a banquet, he suddenly started laughing. When a diner nearby asked him what he was laughing about, Caligula told him he had just realized he could have everyone at the banquet executed if he wanted. The diner lost his appetite.
– maroon 34 / Fuller 355
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