CESAR3. Gaius Caesar, A.D. 12-41, was the son of Germanicus and Agrippina. The palace soldiers nicknamed him Caligula or Baby Boots because, at two years old, he was wearing military boots. He became emperor in A.D. 37, and his reign was marked by much brutality. He was assassinated in his palace on January 24, 41 A.D. (Suetonius, Caius Caligula).
Boethius remembers that Gaius Cesar accused Canius of concealing knowledge of treachery against him. Boethius has been accused of treason against Theodoric and hopes he will have the same chance to answer as Canius did: "If I had known it, you had not known it," Bo I, Prosa 4.81. [Canyus: Germaynes]