Incitatus Horse Senator Primary Source Verdict Lookup
Offline bounded reference card: Suetonius, Caligula55reports proposed honors for Incitatus and says he was said to intend a consulship; it does not establish an actual horse senator appointment. References Suetonius, Caligula55; Cassius Dio 59.14. Hostile-source anecdotes require qualification; no proven completed consulship or senatorial office.
Description
An account of intended honors differs from proof that an office was actually conferred.
An account of intended honors differs from proof that an office was actually conferred.1
The Incitatus story needs that distinction and the perspective of its surviving witnesses. Use Incitatus Horse Senator Primary Source Verdict Lookup to read a supported reference-card topic.
When to use Incitatus Horse Senator Primary Source Verdict Lookup
Use Incitatus Horse Senator Primary Source Verdict Lookup to read a supported reference-card topic. Choose an exact supported token from the table, preserving punctuation and capitalization.
How to use Incitatus Horse Senator Primary Source Verdict Lookup and understand its results
- Choose an exact supported token from the table, preserving punctuation and capitalization.
- Enter Topic using the field table and validation rules below, then run the tool.
- Read Text in the Result object; interpret the units, signs, ordering and unknown-value placeholders described below.
- Read the limitations topic as well as the summary; use the reference topic to locate the underlying source. Correct unsupported tokens before rerunning.
| Input field | Meaning | Value type | Requirement |
|---|---|---|---|
| topic | Topic | string | Required; constraints below |
Enter one of the exact supported topic tokens listed below. The implementation performs a case-sensitive own-key lookup and returns the stored text unchanged. It does not fetch the cited books, search a corpus or inspect current policy. Unsupported tokens and added whitespace are input errors. Reference entries are bibliographic pointers rather than retrieved source passages; read the limitations alongside the summary. This bounded card is not a complete reference database.
returned text = storedTable[exactSupportedToken] Use the field order, units and branch conditions described above.
| Exact supported token | Stored reference text |
|---|---|
| summary | Suetonius, Caligula55reports proposed honors for Incitatus and says he was said to intend a consulship; it does not establish an actual horse senator appointment. |
| reference | Suetonius, Caligula55; Cassius Dio 59.14. |
| limitations | Hostile-source anecdotes require qualification; no proven completed consulship or senatorial office. |
| Output field | Meaning | Value type |
|---|---|---|
| result | Object containing the named result fields below. | object |
| result.text | Stored text for the exact supported token; read summary, reference and limitations together. | string |
{
"input": {
"topic": "summary"
},
"output": {
"result": {
"text": "Suetonius, Caligula55reports proposed honors for Incitatus and says he was said to intend a consulship; it does not establish an actual horse senator appointment."
}
}
}Limitations and assumptions
The Incitatus story needs that distinction and the perspective of its surviving witnesses. Apply the exact scope and assumptions explained above.
All listed fields require explicit values. Unexpected fields, incorrect types, nonfinite numbers and sparse arrays fail validation. Domain-specific bounds, alignments and supported tokens are explained above; extremely large inputs or outputs can also be rejected. Input errors differ from successful false results, empty match lists and unknown-evidence placeholders.
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References
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