Roman Emperor after his nephew Caligula was murdered

Usage examples of claudius.

Under the specious pretext of abolishing human sacrifices, the emperors Tiberius and Claudius suppressed the dangerous power of the Druids: but the priests themselves, their gods and their altars, subsisted in peaceful obscurity till the final destruction of Paganism.

Quintii, Capitolinus and Cincinnatus, and his own uncle, Caius Claudius, a man most stedfast in the interest of the nobility, and other citizens of the same eminence, he appoints as decemvirs men by no means equal in rank of life: himself in the first instance, which proceeding honourable men disapproved so much the more, as no one had imagined that he would have the daring to act so.

Appius Claudius, because he had dissuaded the law, and now with greater authority blamed the issue of a measure which had been found fault with by himself, the consul Servilius appoints dictator by the general wish of the patricians, and a levy and cessation of business are procaimed.

More than Julius Classicus, who simply displayed his ambitions, Claudius CivilisBurhmundyearned to speak into a sympathetic ear, unburden himself to somebody who laid no claims on him.

Appius Claudius, the son of Appius, who was both hated by and hated the commons, ever since the contests between them and his father.

The dark, unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula, the feeble Claudius, the profligate and cruel Nero, the beastly Vitellius, and the timid, inhuman Domitian, are condemned to everlasting infamy.

Not that Claudius himself was so indispensable, he knew, but an Empire ruled by a palace whore and that vain and limited Gaius Silius, a pretty youth who spoke too often and too grandiloquently in the Senate, would surely court disaster.

Lucius was not a patrician Claudian praenomen, yet the Rex Sacrorum was certainly a patrician Claudius.

The new governor of Asia Province, Gaius Claudius Nero, had arrived in Pergamum and taken over, and Sulla had given Lucullus permission to come home, at the same time informing him that he and his brother, Varro Lucullus, would be curule aediles the next year.

He visited Troy to do homage to his ancestor Aeneas, he went to Pessinus several times, and back to Byzantium, and anywhere, it seemed, save Pergamum and Tarsus, where Claudius Nero and Dolabella remained an extra year after all.

Claudius, Agrippina, and the rest of the imperial party, who had to run for their very lives.

Aulus took a deep breath, hoped he had searched out the proper language to pry the blinders off Claudius, and then launched into a lengthy, well-documented warning on the activities of Agrippina and Pallas.

Claudius and Agrippina were having a disagreement over a minor household matter, and Claudius drank more wine than usual to blot out the nagging voice and presence reclining next to him at the table.

Claudius himself who is writing this book, and no secretary of his, and not one of those official annalists, either, to whom public men are in the habit of communicating their recollections, in the hope that elegant writing will eke out meagreness of subject-matter and flattery soften vices.

Rome by soldiering, but by stirring up so much trouble for Tigranes in Antioch that the King of Kings had rued his decision to put Appius Claudius Pulcher in his place by making him kick his heels for months waiting for an audience.