Can It Get Any Worse?

If you read your history it was in the year AD 38 that the Roman Senate became increasingly rattled by the behavior of Emperor Caligula. By now there was no doubt that the emperor of the civilized world was in fact an unhinged and dangerous madman.  

Confirming their worst fears - Caligula announced the revival of the treason trials; the bloodthirsty trials which had given an air of terror to the latter years of Tiberius' reign. 

And it got worse, and worse, and worse...