ing Galba, to whom the power passed when the dynasty of the Julii and Claudii had ruled for a century. 1 The ascension of Caesa

Annals he sought to demonstrate that the Principate of the Julii and Claudii was a tyranny, tracing year by year from Tiberius

s been imagined. Of a total of six NotesPage=>010 1 Along with Claudii , Aemilii and Manlii they formed an aristocracy wi

d alliances between that house and two other groups. The first is the Claudii : in addition to three sons, Ap. Claudius Pulcher

y. 2 Next came their cousins, the three sons of Ap. Pulcher. Of these Claudii , the character of the eldest was made no more ami

the consulate and claiming their support in requital. From of old the Claudii were the great exponents of this policy; and the

m of old the Claudii were the great exponents of this policy; and the Claudii remained on the alert, expecting three consulates

in the oligarchy, the wounds of feud and faction. Neither Aemilii nor Claudii were quite to be trusted. The elusive Crassus, wh

with the Metelli through his clash with Nepos, he had broken with the Claudii and carelessly incurred a bitter feud by giving t

is family. 1 Ap. Claudius, the most prominent member of the patrician Claudii , and two branches of the Cornelii, the Scipiones

ditions of the Roman aristocracy, conspicuous in the Julii and in the Claudii . The novus homo at Rome was all too anxiously eng

(cf. P-W III, 2663), probably indicates the village of origin of the Claudii . 5 For a Claudius who ‘Italiam per clientelas o

d his consulate to the backing of the Scipiones. The influence of the Claudii can be discerned in the elevation of M. Perperna

agacity and influential connexions. Herself in the direct line of the Claudii (her father, slain at Philippi, was a Claudius ad

ned the Julii by adoption and insinuated himself into the clan of the Claudii by a marriage. His party now began to attract amb

shals, with a few patricians, his new allies from the families of the Claudii , the Aemilii and the Scipiones. In this year the

ago the nobles of Rome, not least the dynastic house of the patrician Claudii , had enhanced their power by inducing men of repu

e Antonii 2 And some certainly did, Dio 51, 4, 6. 3 Of one of the Claudii , presumably the Censor, Suetonius (Tib. 2, 2) rec

e marriage with Livia Drusilla had been a political alliance with the Claudii , though not that alone. The cold beauty with tigh

statecraft of houses that held power in Rome of their own right, the Claudii and the Livii. She exploited her skill for the ad

litics, for they were the direct heirs of one branch of the patrician Claudii , the Nerones. There was closer kin. Octavia had

lian, Varia historia 2, 20. PageBook=>345 Though the patrician Claudii were held to be arrogant, they were the very reve

f exclusive, recalling with pride their alien origin. In politics the Claudii , far from being narrowly traditional, were noted

-third with alleviations for favoured relatives, modest for the young Claudii , scandalous for Marcellus. 2 Distances were prese

him, to revive the ancient nobility, patrician or plebeian. Valerii, Claudii , Fabii and Aemilii, houses whose bare survival, n

e most able, the most eminent and the most highly prized were the two Claudii , his stepsons, then L. Domitius Ahenobarbus, L. C

ronage in their turn, open or secret. Tiberius, being the head of the Claudii , would have had a dynastic and personal following

ugustus, had perished and Galba assumed the heritage of the Julii and Claudii , that the great secret was first published abroad

ns (15 B.C.). Silius has almost faded from historical record: the two Claudii , the stepsons of the Princeps, had their martial

well. The glory of it all was intended to fall to Agrippa and the two Claudii . Agrippa on his return from the East went to Illy

cs, had a short time to live. But there was a new generation, the two Claudii , to inherit the role of Agrippa and of Taurus.

Claudii, to inherit the role of Agrippa and of Taurus. Without the Claudii , however, the situation might well appear despera

rs. Certain great houses remained, however, rivals of the Julii and Claudii , not invited, or perhaps disdaining, to join the

VI, 15626), sister of Messalla Appianus, Quirinius was connected with Claudii and Valerii. He was also kin to the Libones (Taci

stus, was to be cheated, prevented from transmitting the power to the Claudii only. He was constrained to adopt a youth who per

f Nero’s reign. 3 From first to last the dynasty of the Julii and the Claudii ran true to form, despotic and murderous. Notes

tue of class and family stands out in Horace’s laudation of the young Claudii : fortes creantur fortibus et bonis. 1 But tha

creantur fortibus et bonis. 1 But that was not enough, even in the Claudii : the poet proceeds, doctrina sed vim promovet i

quite unbridled under his successors in the dynasty of the Julii and Claudii . Opulent families spent their substance in ostent

led there with the company of his clients, the patrician house of the Claudii had been an integral part of the history of the R

adox the power went, not to the brilliant and ambitious branch of the Claudii , the Pulchri, but to the more modest Nerones. F

t;495 Lacking the primeval and patrician distinction of Aemilii and Claudii , the Domitii, a dynastic plebeian house of fairly

iar and blended inheritance to the later generations of the Julii and Claudii . Livia had given her husband no children but the

he Julii and Claudii. Livia had given her husband no children but the Claudii ruled. And in the end, by posthumous and ironical

ncestors of emperors. As time went on, the Julii, the Antonii and the Claudii met and mingled in their successors. Caligula, Cl

ful and abandoned Valeria Messallina, in whose veins ran the blood of Claudii , Domitii and Marcelli, and an impoverished consul

re but their direct line did not survive the dynasty of the Julii and Claudii , their rivals and social equals. It was fitting t

79, 425. Claudia Pulchra, wife of P. Quinctilius Varus, 421, 434. Claudii , 10, 19, 20, 23, 24, 26, 34, 69, 70, 84, 163, 229

his Odes anticipate reforms, 339; on Augustus, 443, 392, 519; on the Claudii , 390, 443; the Carmen saeculare, 444; on pietas,