Claudius

Roman family name that was possibly derived from Latin claudus meaning "lame, crippled" [2] [3] [4] . This was a patrician family prominent in Roman politics. The ancestor of the family was said to have been a 6th-century BC Sabine leader named Attius Clausus, who adopted the name Appius Claudius upon becoming a Roman citizen. The family produced several Roman emperors of the 1st century, including the emperor known simply as Claudius (birth name Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus). He was poisoned by his wife Agrippina in order to bring her son Nero (Claudius's stepson) to power.This name was later borne by several early saints, including a 7th-century bishop of Besançon. It is also the name of the primary antagonist in Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet (1600).

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1. Lewis, Charlton T. and Charles Short. A Latin Dictionary, entry Claudius, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3DClaudius.
2. Withycombe, Elizabeth Gidley. The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names. Oxford, 1945, page 31.
3. Hanks, Patrick and Flavia Hodges. A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford, 1990, page 65.
4. Lewis, Charlton T. and Charles Short. A Latin Dictionary, entry claudus, available from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3Dclaudus.

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