Claudius
Claudius (Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus), 10 BC–AD 54,the emperor Claudius I, born at Lugdunum, Lyons (1 August), the youngest child of Nero Claudius Drusus (the younger brother of Tiberius) and of Antonia (Mark Antony's younger daughter). Hampered by a limp, trembling, and a speech defect, all perhaps due to cerebral palsy, and by continual illnesses, he received no public distinction from Augustus beyond the augurate, and was twice refused a magistracy by Tiberius. Enactments of AD 20, the tabula Siarensis (Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und 55 (1984), 58 f., fr. 1, 11. 6f.; 19–21) and the senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone patre (ed. W. Eck and others, forthcoming) 1. 148, like Tacitus Annales 3. 18. 4, illustrate his low position in the imperial family. Claudius retained the status of a knight until on 1 July 37 he became suffect consul...
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