He likewise exhibited public diversions in
Sicily
, Grecian games at
Syracuse
, and Attic plays at
Lyons
in
Gaul
: besides a contest for pre-eminence in the Grecian and Roman eloquence; in which we are told that such as were baffled bestowed rewards upon the best performers, and were obliged to compose speeches in their praise: but that those who performed the worst were forced to blot out what they had written with a sponge or their tongue, unless they preferred to be beaten with a rod, or plunged over head and ears into the nearest river.
Caligula. Suetonius. ed. J. Eugene Reed, Alexander Thomson (Translator). Philadelphia. 1883.
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