Claudius

Claudius substituted a single vacation at the close of the year, and made the law term continuous.

Largianum was passed under the Emperor Claudius, a.

This decree passed, according to Tacitus, under Claudius (Annales, 11, 13), according to Suetonius, under Vespasian (Suet.

Ab Arabico autem sinu ad Indiam, Indicique Oceani insulas, et auream usque Chersonesum, quam esse Iapanem credunt plerique, etiam re Romana florente navigari solitum, iter a Plinio descriptum, legationes ab Indis ad Augustum, ad Claudium etiam ex Taprobane insula, deinde gesta Traiani et tabulae Ptolemaei satis ostendunt.

Pliny’s description of the route to the East, the embassies from the Indies to Augustus, and those from Ceylon to the emperor Claudius, and finally the accounts of the deeds of Trajan, and the writings of Ptolemaeus, all make it quite clear that in the days of Rome’s greatest splendor voyages were made regularly from the Arabian gulf to India, to the islands of the Indian ocean, and even so far as …

Let her learn clemency from him, and become gentle toward the gentlest of all princes!

Yet I cannot, now that I have gone round all the Caesars from whom Fortune snatched away brothers and sisters, pass over this one, who must be set apart from the whole company of the Caesars—him whom Nature brought forth for the destruction and reproach of the human race, by whom the empire was scorched and utterly overthrown, and which now the clemency of the gentlest of princes restores.

but when you wish to forget all things, think of Caesar.

"I would rather have," he would say, "the esteem of the deified Augustus, the benefit of Claudius.

I fear, to be sure, that this balance is small, when Drusillanus — a slave indeed of Claudius — builds a five-hundred-pound dessert-tray, perhaps necessary for the tables above-written, for which, if a workshop was constructed, a dining-room too was due.

Claudius, the enemy of Cicero, was adopted by a man younger than himself, in order to enable him to become a Tribune of the people, and no evil results that I ever heard of came from it.