# Loeb and Dio print the Baiae pontoon-bridge spectacle as extractive display

Date: 1914

## The fact

Dio 59 and Suetonius print the received two-mile pontoon at Baiae, with the emperor riding in Alexander’s breastplate. The dated English pages are the instrument. Labour, ships, and grain diversion for a stunt are an inequality path in the received account.

## Context

Spectacle can be a public holiday and a tax. Split any cohesion gain onto games rows. Confidence medium on engineering detail, high that later historians needed a mad-luxury set-piece.

[Caligula](/people/caligula) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official edition, museum, or agency page and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Cassius Dio Book 59 — LacusCurtius (https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/59*.html; LacusCurtius / University of Chicago).

## Significance

A printed pontoon-triumph is a luxury extraction heading, not a measured grain-coefficient.

A printed pontoon-triumph is a luxury extraction heading, not a measured grain-coefficient.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Caligula: https://factrail.ai/people/caligula

## Drivers

- Income Inequality: https://factrail.ai/drivers/income-inequality

## Sources

- https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/59*.html
- https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Caligula*.html

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cal-baiae-bridge-spectacle