Claudius
['klɔ:diəs]
Definition
(noun.) Roman Emperor after his nephew Caligula was murdered; consolidated the Roman Empire and conquered southern Britain; was poisoned by his fourth wife Agrippina after her son Nero was named as Claudius' heir (10 BC to AD 54).
Editor: Thea--From WordNet
Examples
- Another man who was with us at Menlo Park was Mr. Herman Claudius, an Austrian, who at one time was employed in connection with the State Telegraphs of his country. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Appius Claudius, one of the first of the censors to exercise it, enrolled freedmen in the tribes and called sons of freedmen to the Senate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A second decemvirate, appointed in succession to the first, attempted a sort of aristocratic counter-revolution under Appius Claudius. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The plebeians withdrew again a second time to the Sacred Mount, and Appius Claudius committed suicide in prison. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- An expedition was dispatched to Messina under the consul Appius Claudius (the third Appius Claudius we have had to mention in this history). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In 270 they were defeated at Nish in Serbia by Claudius, and in 276 they were raiding Pontus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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