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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 7998578, member: 84905&quot;]That is certainly a massive exaggeration. Caligula&#039;s reign of 4 years was a great misfortune for the many people whom he had murdered, but he did not cause the demise or decline of the empire. Most Romans would have experienced his reign as a time of many public amusements, internal peace and building activity. </p><p><br /></p><p>Far greater misfortunes of Rome were things like Marcus Aurelius&#039; Marcomannic wars, which depleted the state treasury and above all his decision to break with the practice of adoptio by nominating his incompetent and cruel son Commodus as his successor. Commodus&#039; failed reign ushered in the period of unrest, civil war and decline that characterised the 3rd century and which brought the empire to the brink of collapse. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Again, that is unlikely to be true. Caligula&#039;s reign started out promising. He descended into madness only after the first two years in power, which Tiberius could not have known.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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