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Like many future emperors Caligula as he is better known began his reign pledging to model himself on Augustus and descended into madness.
像未來的很多皇帝一樣，卡利古拉在一開始就發誓要效法奧古斯都。
Among other wacky stunts he declared himself to be Jupiter he appointed his horse Incitatus to the senate
但是逐漸轉變成一種瘋狂境界 在他的眾多古怪的行徑中， 他稱自己為朱庇特把他的馬，英西塔土斯任命為元老，
and he celebrated a triumph over the sea god Neptune.
他還凱旋慶祝自己戰勝海神。
Since there was no precedent for deposing an incompetent wackjob Princepts,
因為之前沒有過廢除毫無作為的元首的先例，
Celigula was murdered by one of his guards at the command of, you guessed it, the Praetorian Prefect.
卡里古拉被他的一位侍衛，大家可能猜到了是近衛軍首領殺死了。
The Praetorian Guard then replaced Caligula with his goofy old uncle Claudius 41 through 54 AD.
之后近衛軍擁立卡利古拉蠢笨的舅舅克勞迪亞斯為王，公元41年至54年。
Claudius' goofiness was mostly an act intended to boost his life expectancy under his wingnut nephew Caligula,
克勞迪亞斯的愚蠢只是一出戲為了在能他的侄子卡利古拉手下活的久一點，
Claudius did however attempt to add three letters to the roman alphabet and he did set forth the famous decree on farts and belches.
克勞迪亞斯在羅馬字母表上加上了3個字母，并且他還宣布了著名的關于放屁打嗝的法令。
If you have to you must because holding it back could be dangerous.
如果你想打嗝放屁，那就必須放出來，因為憋回去是很危險的。
Aside from that Claudius was actually a learned and competent Princepts who added Britain to the empire
除此之外，克拉迪亞斯實際上是一位博學并且稱職的元首，他把英國收進了帝國，
and wrote a 20-volume history of the ancient Truscans.
還寫了一部20卷的古特魯斯坎人歷史。
More than any of the other Julio-Claudians, Claudius tried to maintain good relations with the senate.
相比朱里亞·克勞狄王朝的任何一位統治者，克拉迪亞斯試圖與元老保持良好的關系。
He may even have entertained ideas of giving the roman state back to the senate.
他甚至考慮過把羅馬政府歸還給元老院。
However it wasn't too smart when he married his much younger niece Agrippina.
然而當他和小他很多的侄女阿格里皮娜結婚后，他就愚笨了許多。
Not only did Agrippina cheat on him she poisoned him so she could bring her teenaged son Nero, ruled 53 to 68 AD to power.
阿格里皮娜不僅欺騙他，她還毒死了他，好讓自己的兒子尼祿上臺。尼祿執政于公元53至68年。
Nero started out in 54 AD with the usual promise to rule like another Augustus.
公元54年，尼祿也做出了慣常的承諾要學習奧古斯都。
He had studied philosophy with Rome's greatest stoic, Seneka the younger.
他和羅馬最偉大的斯多葛派學者塞內卡學習哲學。
Himself of Spanish descent Seneka tried to train Nero in the Mos Majorum encouraging him to put Rome first and his own personal life second.
西班牙后裔塞內卡試著讓尼祿學習羅馬規范，鼓勵他把羅馬放在第一位。而把自己的個人生命放在第二位。
But soon Nero found himself immersed in his own personal hobbies.
但是后來尼祿沉浸于個人的喜好為所欲為。
Playing the Lire, persecuting Christians and utterly ignoring developments in the empire.
玩弄里拉，迫害基督教徒，完全忽視帝國的發展。
Many senators moved into outright opposition including his old teacher Seneka.
很多長老都開始反對他，包括他的老師塞內卡。
Nero didn't play the fiddle while Rome burned in 64 but he did build himself a huge new palace,
在公元64年羅馬大火時尼祿沒在玩樂，但是他確實在火災結束后在原地
the so-called golden house on the scene of the fire.
給自己建了一個新的宮殿就是人們所說的金屋。
That was too much even for the masses, who had enjoyed his eccentricities at first but were now disgusted with him.
這對民眾來說太過分了，人們原本很喜歡他的怪癖，但是現在很厭惡他。
Once Nero returned from his 67 AD concert tour of Greece the general Vindex commanding in France, was named Imperator by his troops.
公元67年，尼祿從希臘巡回音樂演出歸來，將軍文德克斯控制著法國，被他的軍隊擁立為王。
This was a recurrence of the old Roman client army thingy but his revolt failed.
這是古羅馬私人軍隊的重新出現，但是他們的反抗失敗了。
Next the governor of Spain, Galba, was named Imperator by his troops.
下一任西班牙的管理者加爾巴也被軍隊擁立為王。
