Shakedowns

Gaius (Caligula) wanted to get the money. And he was preoccupied with questions of citizenship:

Suetonius, from The Twelve Caesars, trans. Robert Graves (1957).

Draw your own parallels.

Caligula is no. 17 in the Penguin Little Black Classics series (2015).

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“And not necessarily for major offences” : Doing anything to anyone

[“Get the money”: a Damon Runyon line, by way of Ted Berrigan.]