Patricians entered, stunned, and with them people from the palace, and you too. Caligula strikes one last blow, and raises his mallet, turns towards them and calls them.

“Bring in the guilty. I need guilty people. And they all are. I want those condemned to death to be brought in. An audience, I want to have an audience! Judges, witnesses, accused, all condemned in advance! It is an emperor who demands that you come closer.”