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			Survey of ancient sources on the Roman Emperor [[Claudius]].

	*This page is edited by [[Samuele Rocca]], Israel		*This page is edited by [[Samuele Rocca]], Israel
	*DICTIONARY: see [[Claudius]]
	*ANCIENT SOURCES: see [[Claudius]] (sources)
	*SCHOLARLY AND FICTIONAL WORKS: see: Category:[[Claudius]] (subject)

	~~This page includes ancient sources dealing with the character of the Roman Emperor [[Claudius]].~~

	===Overview===		===Overview===

	The Latin writer [[Suetonius]] wrote a biography of [[Claudius]], the fifth book of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars. [[Tacitus]] in his Annals, dedicated some books to the reign of [[Claudius]]. However only books XI-XII survived. The Greek Historian [[Dio Cassius]] dedicated books 60 and 61 of his Roman History to the reign of [[Claudius]].		The Latin writer [[Suetonius]] wrote a biography of [[Claudius]], the fifth book of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars. [[Tacitus]] in his Annals, dedicated some books to the reign of [[Claudius]]. However only books XI-XII survived. The Greek Historian [[Dio Cassius]] dedicated books 60 and 61 of his Roman History to the reign of [[Claudius]].


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	5 - - 45. His death was kept quiet until all the arrangements were made about the succession. Accordingly vows were offered for his safety, as if he were still ill, and the farce was kept up by bringing in comic actors, under pretence that he had asked to be entertained in that way. He died on the third day before the Ides of October in the consulship of [[Asinius Marcellus]] and [[Acilius Aviola]], in the sixty-fourth year of his age and the fourteenth of his reign. He was buried with regal pomp and enrolled among the gods, an honour neglected and finally annulled by [[Nero]], but later restored to him by [[Vespasian]].		5 - - 45. His death was kept quiet until all the arrangements were made about the succession. Accordingly vows were offered for his safety, as if he were still ill, and the farce was kept up by bringing in comic actors, under pretence that he had asked to be entertained in that way. He died on the third day before the Ides of October in the consulship of [[Asinius Marcellus]] and [[Acilius Aviola]], in the sixty-fourth year of his age and the fourteenth of his reign. He was buried with regal pomp and enrolled among the gods, an honour neglected and finally annulled by [[Nero]], but later restored to him by [[Vespasian]].
	5 - - 46. The principal omens of his death were the following: the rise of a long-haired star, commonly called a comet; the striking of his father [[Drusus]]'s tomb by lightning; and the fact that many magistrates of all ranks had died that same year. There are besides some indications that he himself was not unaware of his approaching end, and that he made no secret of it; for when he was appointing the consuls, he made no appointment beyond the month when he died, and on his last appearance in the senate, after earnestly exhorting his children to harmony, he begged the members to watch over the tender years of both; and in his last sitting on the tribunal he declared more than once that he had reached the end of a mortal career, although all who heard him prayed that the omen might be averted.		5 - - 46. The principal omens of his death were the following: the rise of a long-haired star, commonly called a comet; the striking of his father [[Drusus]]'s tomb by lightning; and the fact that many magistrates of all ranks had died that same year. There are besides some indications that he himself was not unaware of his approaching end, and that he made no secret of it; for when he was appointing the consuls, he made no appointment beyond the month when he died, and on his last appearance in the senate, after earnestly exhorting his children to harmony, he begged the members to watch over the tender years of both; and in his last sitting on the tribunal he declared more than once that he had reached the end of a mortal career, although all who heard him prayed that the omen might be averted.


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