“Caligula looked at me, uncomfortably, through narrowed eyelids.”
“Do you think I’m mad?” he asked, after a time.
I laughed nervously. “Mad, Caesar? You ask whether I think you mad? Why, you set the standard of sanity for the whole habitable world.”
“It’s a very difficult thing, you know, Claudius,” he said confidentially, “to be a God in human disguise..”