That such opposed vices, both the greatest arrogance and the greatest timidity, were to be found in the same person, I have no doubt in attributing to his mental infirmity. For this man, who had so little respect for the gods, would, at the slightest hint of thunder or lightning, close his eyes and over his head, while a bigger storm would make him spring out of his bed and hide under it – Suetonius Caligula, 51.
