Claudiopŏlis

, a town of Cappadocia. Pliny , bk. 5 , ch. 24 . Claudius I. (Tiberius Drusus Nero), son of Drusus, Livia’s second son, succeeded as emperor of Rome, after the murder of Caligula, whose memory he endeavoured to annihilate. He made himself popular for a while, by taking particular care of the city, and by adorning and beautifying it with buildings. He pa ed over into Britain, and obtained a triumph for victories which his generals had won, and suffered himself to be governed by favourites, whose licentiousne and avarice plundered the state and distracted the provinces. He married four wives, one of whom, called Me alina, he put to death on account of her lust and debauchery. He was at last poisoned by another called A grip pin a, who wished to raise her son Nero to the throne. The poison was conveyed in mushrooms; but as it did not operate fast enough, his physician, by order of the empre , made him swallow a poisoned feather. He died in the 63rd year of his age, 13 October, A.D. 54, after a reign of 13 years; distinguished neither by humanity nor courage, but debased by weakne and irresolution. He was succeeded by Nero. Tacitus , Annals , bk. 11 , . — Dio Ca ius , bk. 60 .— Juvenal , satire 6, li. 619 .— Suet on i us , The Twelve Caesars .――The second emperor of that name was a Dalmatian, who succeeded Gallienus. He conquered the Goths, Scythians, and Heruli, and killed no le than 300,000 in a battle; and after a reign of about two years, died of the plague in Pannonia. The excellence of his character, marked with bravery, and tempered with justice and benevolence, is well known by these words of the senate, addre ed to him: Claudi Auguste, tu frater, tu pater, tu amicus, tu bonus senator, tu vere princeps .――Nero, a consul, with Livius Sal in at or, who defeated and killed Asdrubal, near the river Metaurum, as he was pa ing from Spain into Italy, to go to the a istance of his brother Annibal. Livy , bk. 27 , . — Horace , bk. 4 , ode 4, li. 37 .— Suet on i us , Tiberias .――The father of the emperor Tiberius, questor to Cæsar in the wars of Alexandria.――Pollos, an historian. Pliny the Younger , bk. 7 , ltr. 51 .――Pontius, a general of the Samnites, who conquered the Roman at Furcæ Caudinæ, and made them pa under the yoke. Livy , bk. 9 , ch. 1 , . ――Petilius, a dictator, A.U.C. 442.――Appius, an orator. Cicero , Brutus . See: Appius .――Appius Cæcus, a Roman censor, who built an aqueduct, A.U.C. 441, which brought water to Rome from Tusculum, at the distance of seven or eight miles. The water was called Appia , and it was the first that was brought to the city from the country. Before his age the Romans were satisfied with the waters of the Tiber, or of the fountains and wells in the city. See: Appius . Livy , bk. 9 , ch. 29 .— Ovid , Fasti , bk. 6 , li. 203 .— Cicero , de Senectute , ch. 6 .――A pretor of Sicily.――Publius, a great enemy to Cicero. See: Clodius .――Mar cell us. See: Mar cell us .――Pulcher, a consul, who, when consulting the sacred chickens, ordered them to be dipped in water because they would not eat. Livy , bk. 19 . He was unsucce ful in his expedition against the Cart hag in i ans in Sicily, and disgraced on his return to Rome.――Tiberius Nero, was elder brother of Drusus and son of Livia Drusilla, who married August us, after his divorce of Scribonia. He married Livia, the emperor’s daughter by Scribonia and succeeded in the empire by the name of Tiberius. See: Tiberius . Horace , bk. 1 , ltr. 3 , li. 2 .――The name of Claudius is common to many Roman consuls, and other officers of state; but nothing is recorded of them, and their name is but barely mentioned. Livy.