英语词汇spoils of the conquered ocean的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

spoils of the conquered ocean. When he impulsively decid- ed to become conqueror of Britain in a.d. 40, the mad Roman emperor Caligula, who had made his horse Incitatus a priest and a consul of Rome, started to move his legions across the Channel from Gaul. Then he just as suddenly changed his mind and took his men on a march up and down the beach hunting for seashells! The Roman historian Suetonius says that when Caligula’s legions gathered enough shells, the emperor marched them home in self-acclaimed triumph carrying “the spoils of the conquered ocean.” It was Caligula who angrily exclaimed: “Would that the Roman people had but one neck!” His name means “little boots” in Latin, and he was so called because of the army sandals (caligae) he wore when a boy in the army. He was only 29 when he was assassinated in a.d. 41

词汇	spoils of the conquered ocean
词源	spoils of the conquered ocean. When he impulsively decid- ed to become conqueror of Britain in a.d. 40, the mad Roman emperor Caligula, who had made his horse Incitatus a priest and a consul of Rome, started to move his legions across the Channel from Gaul. Then he just as suddenly changed his mind and took his men on a march up and down the beach hunting for seashells! The Roman historian Suetonius says that when Caligula’s legions gathered enough shells, the emperor marched them home in self-acclaimed triumph carrying “the spoils of the conquered ocean.” It was Caligula who angrily exclaimed: “Would that the Roman people had but one neck!” His name means “little boots” in Latin, and he was so called because of the army sandals (caligae) he wore when a boy in the army. He was only 29 when he was assassinated in a.d. 41
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