[
US
/ˈkɫɔdiəs/
]
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)
How To Use Claudius In A Sentence
- Before he can physic the evil of Claudius he is himself dying; only then does he force Claudius to feel the potency of his own poisons.
- Detecting the spy behind the curtain and mistaking him for King Claudius, Hamlet plunges his sword into the arras and slays Polonius.
- Claudius et longo transmittit habere nepoti. quis superos metuens pariter tot templa, tot aras promeruisse datur? summi Iouis aliger Arcas80 nuntius; imbrifera potitur Thaumantide Iuno; stat celer obsequio iussa ad Neptunia Triton: tu totiens mutata ducum iuga rite tulisti integer, inque omni felix tua cumba profundo. To Claudius Etruscus on the Death of his Father
- And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.
- There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, following a decree of the Emperor Claudius which ordered all Jews to leave Rome.
- Claudius Nero, the titular president of the court, made no attempt to run it; he sat mumchance and let Verres and Rubrius do that. Fortune's Favorites
- Heliogabalus, or Elagabalus as he is also called, is indeed a prime example in the category of Roman decadence, along with other notorious emperors such as Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero. Go ask the physiognomists, phrenologists, pathognomists and characterologists « Jahsonic
- During the rigged tournament, Claudius and Laertes give Hamlet a blunted sword while Laertes' weapon is sharpened and poisoned.
- He notes that he looked "to those twelve Caesars so mistreated by Suetonius," in the hope of emulating the best of each: "the clear-sightedness of Tiberius, without his harshness; the learning of Claudius without his weakness; Nero's taste for the arts, but stripped of all foolish vanity; the kindness of Titus, stopping short of his sentimentality; Vespasian's thrift, but not his absurd miserliness. Portrait of Power Embodied in a Roman Emperor
- After all, the thought of murdering Claudius, vile and hated though he was, still repelled Hamlet.
