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One of his clients, Marcus Claudius, swore that she was the child of a slave belonging to him, and had been stolen by the childless wife of the centurion.
AppiusClaudius transferred the charge of the public worship of Hercules in the Forum Boarium from the Potitian gens to a number of public slaves.
Claudius was of a distinctly religious turn of mind, as is shown by the interest he took in sacred buildings (the temple at Eleusis, the sanctuary of Amphiaraus at Oropus) - He wrote a work on augury, the first book of which he dedicated to Cicero.
Claudius Nero and Livia Drusilla (herself a Claudian Nero through her father Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus) was adpoted by Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (see Julio-Claudian dynasty).
Lucius Catilius Severus Iulianus Claudius Reginus, consul 120
Claudius Salmasius is "Claude Saumaise" Latinized, as was formerly common for European scholars.
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Ambition of individuals (especially AppiusClaudius), jealousy of classes or factions (patricians and plebeians are always at each others' throats), and the hostility of outsiders (Sabines, Volscians and Aequians attack Rome yearly): these are the major problems facing the newly independent Roman people in the mid-5th century BC after the expulsion of the kings.
AppiusClaudius is the embodiment of immoderatio at its worst: his ambition destroys his former dignity, leads him to a tyrannical oppression of others, and results in his own disgrace and exile.
Appius' problem is that he is afraid of being a nobody: without the role of leader in the state, he has no identity, hence he is unwilling to relinquish his power when his lawful term of office is up.
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AppiusClaudius Caecus, famous as the man responsible for the creation of the Appian Way and the Claudian Aqueduct, was a 5th or 6th generation Roman of Sabine descent.
Claudius was elected to serve with Gaius Plautus as censors of Rome in 312 BCE.
Claudius was to build a road that would replace at least one of the dirt paths on which Romans traveled.
AppiusClaudius Caudex: Roman senator, played a role in the first part of the First Punic War (264-241).
AppiusClaudius Caudex (the surname probably means 'blockhead'), the son of Caius, was one of the two
Caius Claudius crossed the strait for the third time, and because he now understood the currents, was able to capture the harbor before the Carthaginians understood what was going on.
AppiusClaudius was inflamed with a criminal passion towards a young woman of plebeian rank.
Appius now ordered Icilius to be called before him; then, on his refusing to attend, to be seized: at last when the beadles were not suffered to come near him, he himself, with a band of young patricians, pushing through the crowd, ordered him to be taken into confinement.
Appius then mounted the tribunal, whither he was followed by Horatius and Valerius; to these the assembly paid attention, but drowned the decemvir's voice with noise.
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In 495 he was elected consul and romanized his name to AppiusClaudius.
He allowed his secretary to distribute copies of the Law of 12 Tables for general public to view and understand as well as being aware of when their grievances were to be heard.
His son was AppiusClaudius Pulcher, the fleet commander defeated by the Carthaginians.
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In 452 BC the plebeians and patricians of Rome agreed to the appointment of a commission of ten men to write up a code of law defining the principles of Roman administration; during the decemviri's term in office, all other magistracies would be suspended, and their decisions were not subject to appeal.
The first set of decemviri, composed entirely of patricians, assumed office in 451 BC, and was led by AppiusClaudius Crassus Inregillensis Sabinus and Titus Genucius Augurinus, who were consuls for that year.
AppiusClaudius is said to have made an unjust decision which would have forced a young woman named Verginia into prostitution, prompting her father to kill her, and this travesty caused an uprising against the Decemvirate; the decemviri resigned their offices in 449 BC, and the ordinary magistrates (magistratus ordinarii) were re-instituted.
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AppiusClaudius was keenly alive to the chance that he might not be reelected, in spite of his age and the honours he had enjoyed.
AppiusClaudius, he said, alone was outside the laws, outside all the bonds that held states or even human society together.
AppiusClaudius, harsh by nature, and now maddened by the hatred of the plebs on the one hand and the praises of the senate on the other, asserted that these riotous gatherings were not the result of misery but of licence, the plebeians were actuated by wantonness more than by anger.
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AppiusClaudius Caecus was a popular Roman politician.
He was a patrician who became the first politician to attempt to give landless workers a voice in the Roman senate.
AppiusClaudius organized the construction of the first paved Roman road, the 'Via Appia', and Rome's first aqueduct.
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Roman legal writer and politician who made public the technical rules of legal procedure, which had been kept secret by the patricians and the pontifices (advisers to the king, dictator, or emperor) so that they could maintain their advantage over the plebeians.
Flavius learned procedure while serving as secretary to the censor and consul AppiusClaudius Caecus.
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The family was traditionally held to have begun with Attius Clausus, a Sabine who favored peace with Rome, an unpopular position that led to him leaving Regillus[?] with his followers around 504 BC.
Gaius Claudius Marcellus, consul 51 BC, 50 BC
II of the Roman Empire">Flauius Claudius Constantinus Caesar (Constantine II), emperor
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His son was the consul (Click link for more info and facts about Publius Claudius Pulcher) Publius Claudius Pulcher, his grandson the consul (Click link for more info and facts about AppiusClaudius Caudex) AppiusClaudius Caudex.
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AppiusClaudius Sabinus Inregillenis or Regillensis was a Sabine; he came (c.504
While consul (495), his severe interpretation of the laws of debt caused the temporary emigration of the general citizenry (the plebs, as distinct from the patricians) to the sacred mount, a hill NE of Rome.