Appius Claudius

Five men were named as her partners in adultery—Iullus Antonius, Quintus Crispinus, Appius Claudius, Sempronius Gracchus, and Scipio—all of them from noted aristocratic families.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

Rome, and Appius Claudius, the decemvir and lawgiver; whereof the former was indeed a voluptuous man, and inordinate; but the latter was an austere and wise man: and therefore it seems (though rarely) that love can find entrance, not only into an open heart, but also into a heart well fortified, if watch be not well kept.

The Essays 2007

At break of day, being charged by the noble youth of the city, among many others he overthrew Appius Claudius, renowned for high birth and character.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

This appeared by what Appius Claudius did, who, though he had been consul and censor, and was now the head of the Roman senate, and had the highest sense of his own place and merit, at a public feast of the augurs, addressed himself openly to Tiberius, and with great expressions of kindness, offered him his daughter in marriage.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

These men having gone and returned, they arrived at the appointing of the men who should examine and establish the said laws, and they created the Decemvir [Ten Citizens] for a year, among whom Appius Claudius, a sagacious but turbulent man, was appointed.

Discourses 2003

Nobles and the Plebs: none the less, when a war occurred [to them], they sent out Quintius and Appius Claudius with the armies.

Discourses 2003

At this point Appius Claudius, a man of great distinction, but who, because of his great age and loss of sight, had declined the fatigue of public business, after these propositions had been made by the king, hearing a report that the senate was ready to vote the conditions of peace, could not forbear, but commanding his servants to take him up, was carried in his chair through the forum to the senate house.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

Livius put in the mouth of Appius Claudius, who, complaining to the people of the insolence of the Tribunes of the plebs, points out how, by their means, the auspices and other things pertinent to

Discourses 2003

Sabine Appius Claudius, when he had come to settle in Rome, was loaded with honours and enrolled in a rural tribe, which subsequently took his family name.

The Social Contract 2002

Appius Claudius (later Caecus, “the blind”) as censor distributed freedmen among the rural tribes (in 302 (304) freedmen were confined once again to the four urban tribes).

f. The Conquest of Italy 2001