<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3ac302d5-ce3a-4b65-a4d5-13ebaead4f31/DFA02171-FF5E-4B7D-A414-CD13F1FAC351/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cassius_Chaerea&oldid=186701024" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cassius_Chaerea&oldid=186701024" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cassius_Chaerea&oldid=186701024"><H1 class="firstHeading">Cassius Chaerea</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cassius_Chaerea&oldid=186701024"><P><B><A title="Cassia (gens)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassia_%28gens%29">Cassius</A> Chaerea</B> (fl. 1st century) was a <A title="Centurion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion">centurion</A> in the army of <A title="Germanicus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanicus">Germanicus</A> and served in the <A title="Praetorian Guard" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praetorian_Guard">Praetorian Guard</A> under the emperor <A title="Caligula" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula">Caligula</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cassius_Chaerea&oldid=186701024"><P>Cassius was disturbed by the increasingly-unbalanced emperor, and angered at Caligula's mocking of his voice and his supposed or real effeminacy, possibly due to a wound to his genitalia<SUP class="noprint Template-Fact"><SPAN title="This claim needs references to reliable sources since October 2007">[<I><A title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</A></I>]</SPAN></SUP> suffered while serving Caligula's father, <A title="Germanicus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanicus">Germanicus</A>. It is reported that whenever Caligula had Chaerea kiss his ring, he presented his hand with outstretched <A title="Middle finger" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_finger">middle finger</A>, testifying to the long-standing popularity of "giving <A title="The finger" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_finger">the finger</A>".<SUP class="noprint Template-Fact"><SPAN title="This claim needs references to reliable sources since January 2008">[<I><A title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed">citation needed</A></I>]</SPAN></SUP> He was also made to use degrading watch-words at night, including "Venus" (slang for a male eunuch) and "<A title="Priapus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priapus">Priapus</A>" (erection).</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DFA02171-FF5E-4B7D-A414-CD13F1FAC351/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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