History & Politics
Caesares: Quatrains V. — Claudius Caesar
Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1919–21) · From Book XIV. — Ausonius on the Twelve Caesars
History & Politics
Claudius, flouted in his private life, as emperor showed a pattern of ability. Even though he suffered his freedmen's and his wife's enormities, his guilt lay not in performance but in sufferance.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Caesares: Quatrains V. — Claudius Caesar.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/163/.
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Ausonius, Decimus Magnus. “Caesares: Quatrains V. — Claudius Caesar.” Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ausonius/163/.
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