Claudius

//ˈklɔdiəs//

"Claudius" in a Sentence (10 examples)

Claudius, seeing a mighty man before him, saw things looked serious and understood that here he had not quite the same pre-eminence as at Rome, where no one was his equal.

Claudius is making a white box for his friend.

In his old age, Appius Claudius faced the additional challenge of being blind.

Indus, bodyguard of Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus, from the decury of Secundus, from the Batavian Nation, lived 36 years. Here is he buried. Eumenes, his brother and heir from the society of the Germanic peoples, put him here.

Flavius Claudius Julianus, son of Julius Constantius and nephew of the Emperor Constantine, was born at Constantinople in 331 A.D.

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

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.).

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.”

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.

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

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