# Loeb accounts print a brief transfer of elections back toward popular assemblies

Date: 1913

## The fact

Suetonius prints that Gaius restored elections to the people, reversing Tiberius’s senatorial lock. The dated Loeb is the carrier. The turn was brief and is poorly evidenced in practice. Low confidence, still an improving heading if it happened as written.

## Context

Populist restoration can be theatre. Do not upgrade it into a republic. Do not erase it because later maiestas returned.

[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: Suetonius, Caligula — LacusCurtius (Loeb English) (https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Caligula*.html; LacusCurtius / University of Chicago).

## Significance

Printed electoral restoration is a low-confidence resilience flicker, not a franchise.

Printed electoral restoration is a low-confidence resilience flicker, not a franchise.

## 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

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://www.livius.org/articles/person/caligula/
- https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Caligula*.html

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cal-elections-restored-briefly