Note 1664 — Chapter X · THE PRINCIPATE
Reading edition
On Seneca’s question with reference to Agrippina (59 A.D.) “an militi imperanda caedes esset,” the answer is “praetorianos toti Caesarum domui obstrictos ... nihil ... atrox ausuros.” Caligula specifically included the names of his sisters in the sacramentum (Dio Cass. lix. 9)