The origin of Caligula's name. The young Gaius earned the nickname "Caligula" (meaning "little soldier's boot", the diminutive form of caliga, hob-nailed military boot) from his father's soldiers while accompanying him during his campaigns in Germania. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, AD 12 – AD 41. Roman emperor. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.
The origin of Caligula's name. The young Gaius earned the nickname "Caligula" (meaning "little soldier's boot", the diminutive form of caliga, hob-nailed military boot) from his father's soldiers while accompanying him during his campaigns in Germania. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, AD 12 – AD 41. Roman emperor. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.