Claudius

plural Claudiuses · plural Claudii

1. A male given name from Latin.

   The two Claudii had put their heads on the block by their own volition.

   2015, Harry Sidebottom, “Rome, The Caelian Hill, Five Days before the Ides of March, ad238”, in Blood & Steel (Throne of the Caesars; 2), London: HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 132

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   [H]e […] wrote a letter in this maner. Claudius Liſias vnto the moſt mighty ruelar Felix ſendeth gretyngꝭ.

   1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts xxiiij:[23–26], folio cxc, verso

   King Claudius is the Emperor Claudius, who "committed incest with Agrippina, married her and adopted her son Nero." The two Claudiuses have several traits in common (drunkenness, violent temper, love of gambling, e.g.).

   1968, John W[illiam] Velz, Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition: A Critical Guide to Commentary, 1660-1960, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →LCCN, page 315, column 2

   Vespasian, a simple man, always laughed because so many Julii and Claudii were made divine after their deaths. On his deathbed he said, “Alas! I think I’m becoming a god.”

   2001, Rose Williams, Duces Romanorum: Profiles in Roman Courage, teacher’s edition, London: WPC Classics, →ISBN, page 94

   Busy accepting the good wishes of all the other guests, Titus was able to pay only passing attention to Gnaeus. He worried that his friend might feel a bit out of place amid so many Claudii and Potitii, or, given his sensitivities, might experience a bit of envy, perhaps even resentment, at seeing the trappings of the patrician wedding he himself would never experience.

   2007, Steven Saylor, “Coriolanus (510–491 bc)”, in Roma: The Epic Novel of Ancient Rome, London: Constable, →ISBN, page 143

2. The Roman emperor "Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus".