{"id":111755,"date":"2022-09-20T22:19:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T20:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=111755"},"modified":"2022-09-20T22:19:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T20:19:49","slug":"incitatus-horse-of-caligula","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/incitatus-horse-of-caligula\/","title":{"rendered":"Incitatus &#8211; horse of Caligula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Incitatus<\/em> was Spain&#8217;s favourite racehorse of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/cesarz-kaligula\/\">Emperor Caligula<\/a>, whom he made <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-republic\/roman-offices\/roman-consul\/\">consul<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a>. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/suetonius\/\">Suetonius<\/a>, the animal had 18 servants for itself, he lived in a marble stable, walked in a harness decorated with precious stones and dressed in purple, and ate from an ivory manger. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the end, the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/horses-in-ancient-rome\/\">horse<\/a> was given a furnished home and servants, so that the guests invited on its behalf could feast more comfortably. Cassius Dio adds that the horse was fed &#8220;golden barley&#8221; (barley mixed with gold flakes). Cassius Dio also reported that the horse had its own servants and that <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/caligula\/\">Caligula<\/a> would make him a priest.<\/p>\n<p><em>Incitatus<\/em> regularly attended Caligula&#8217;s feasts: on this occasion, the emperor toasted the steed&#8217;s health. Dio and <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/swetoniusz\/\">Suetonius<\/a> report that Caligula was going to make <em>Incitatus<\/em> a consul.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/smierc-kaliguli\/\">The death of Caligula<\/a> and the change to the imperial throne thwarted these plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":110749,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-111755","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/111755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/111755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=111755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}