Loeb Classical Library publishes Suetonius’s Caligula in facing Latin-English
Rolfe’s Loeb Suetonius volume made the Caligula vita a classroom object. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.
Read the full account
Rolfe’s Loeb Suetonius volume made the Caligula vita a classroom object. The book is a completed teaching instrument. It is not a rehabilitation and not an autograph.
Context
Access to a hostile source is still access. Students can now check the jokes against Dio and Philo. Print also froze Rolfe’s textual choices later reused by LacusCurtius and Perseus.
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.
Why it matters
A 1913 Loeb is a knowledge-access gain. It does not make the anecdotes true.
A 1913 Loeb is a knowledge-access gain. It does not make the anecdotes true.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Caligula
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.24 · verified
Princeps as named in later editions and objects. Historians, museums, and later states publish the instrument.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactLoeb Classical Library publishes Suetonius’s Caligula in facing Latin-English
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicators (3)Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
impact weight 0.5 · Effect from 1 January 1913 · verified
A 1913 Loeb is a knowledge-access gain. It does not make the anecdotes true.
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.2 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.4)
Observed
70% of 10-year-olds · 70 above the normal line (2022)
Worse than normalTwo readings: 57% of 10-year-olds (2019) and 70% of 10-year-olds (2022).
20192022 Above normal = worse
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.17 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.35)
Observed
472 PISA score points · 28 below the normal line (2022)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2003–2022: fell from 499 PISA score points to 472 PISA score points.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.15 (weight 0.5 × strength 0.3)
Observed
11% of primary-school-age children · 11 above the normal line (2023)
Worse than normalAbove normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Suetonius, Caligula — PerseusPerseus Digital Library / Tufts · High credibility · verified
- 2.Suetonius, Loeb vol. 1 (Rolfe) scanInternet Archive / Loeb Classical Library · High credibility · verified
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorCaligula
- contributed toFactLoeb Classical Library publishes Suetonius’s Caligula in facing Latin-English
- strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
- weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)
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Factrail. (2026). Loeb Classical Library publishes Suetonius’s Caligula in facing Latin-English. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/cal-loeb-suetonius-access
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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