Caligula At the insistence of the senate and the people of Rome, I accept humbly the highest office of our great republic. Caligula From this moment, all official oaths will contain the following phrase; I will value neither my life nor the lives of my children any more highly than I do the emperor and of his sister Drusilla. Caligula I am interested in all that is Rome, even down to the length of a toga.