Caligula Appointing His Horse Incitatus to the Consulship - Style of Pietro da Cortona 1596-1669 - Art Institute of Chicago
Caligula Appointing His Horse Incitatus to the Consulship – Style of Pietro da Cortona 1596-1669 – Art Institute of Chicago

Caesar’s intractable
grandson, Caligula,
skewered the Senate
with little remorse.

Cal (for new heights in
effrontery) up and
appointed the first
senatorial horse!

First published in Light, A Quarterly of Light Verse, No. 46, Autumn, 2004