Appius Silanus was executed early in Claudius ' reign under questionable circumstances.

His censorship seems to have been based on those of his ancestors, particularly Appius Claudius Caecus, and he used the office to put into place many policies based on those of Republican times.

For example, he believed ( as most Romans ) that his ancestor Appius Claudius Caecus had used the censorship to introduce the letter " R " and so used his own term to introduce his new letters.

A deadlocked senate put the matter before the popular assembly, where it was decided to accept the Mamertines ' request and Appius Claudius Caudex was appointed commander of a military expedition with orders to cross to Messana.

Two legions commanded by Appius Claudius Caudex disembarked at Messana, where the Mamertines had expelled the Carthaginian garrison commanded by Hanno ( no relation to Hanno the Great ).

* Appius Claudius Caudex, Roman consul

" According to some records, the original seventh letter, ⟨ z ⟩, had been purged from the Latin alphabet somewhat earlier in the 3rd century BC by the Roman censor Appius Claudius, who found it distasteful and foreign.

He created the parts of Appius Claudius in Sheridan Knowles's Virginius ( 1820 ) and of Modus in his Hunchback ( 1832 ).

* Appius Claudius Pulcher, Roman consul and censor

* Appius Claudius Caecus, Aqua Appia, Via Appia, invented letter G

* 449 BC — death of Appius Claudius, former decemvir ( suicide )

* The Roman consul Appius Claudius Caudex and his two legions are deployed to Sicily, the first time a Roman army has gone into action outside the Italian peninsula.

* Appius Claudius Caudex leads his forces to Messina, and as the Mamertines have convinced the Carthaginians to withdraw, he meets with only minimal resistance.

The Mamertines hand the city over to Appius Claudius, but the Carthaginians return to set up a blockade.

* Appius Claudius leads his troops outside the city of Messina to defeat the Syracusans in battle forcing Hiero to retreat back to Syracuse.

* Appius Claudius Sabinus Inregillensis, semi-legendary founder of the Claudii

Her husband, Pompeianus, was not involved, but two men alleged to have been her lovers, Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus ( the consul of 167, who was also her first cousin ) and Appius Claudius Quintianus, attempted to murder Commodus as he entered the theatre.

The road is named after Appius Claudius Caecus, the Roman censor who began and completed the first section as a military road to the south in 312 BC during the Samnite Wars.

In 312 BC, Appius Claudius Caecus became censor at Rome.

Without waiting to be told what to do by the Senate, Appius Claudius began bold public works to address the supply problem.

It is no surprise that, after his term as censor, Appius Claudius became consul twice, subsequently held other offices, and was a respected consultant to the state even during his later years.

Appius Claudius planned to drain the marsh, taking up earlier attempts, but he failed.

Appius Claudius died in 273, but in extending the road a number of times, no one has tried to displace his name upon it.

** Appius Claudius, former decemvir, suicide

* Consuls: Appius Claudius Pulcher and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus.

Around 451 B. C., a decemvir of the Roman Republic, Appius Claudius Crassus begins to lust after Verginia, a plebeian girl betrothed to a former tribune, Lucius Icilius.

He met with three prominent leaders: Crassus, the Pontifex Maximus, the consul and jurist Publius Mucius Scaevola, and Appius Claudius, his father-in-law.

The first Decemviri, composed entirely of patricians is led by consuls Appius Claudius Crassus and Titus Genucius Augurinus.

* Appius Claudius Crassus, former decemvir ( suicide )

The first set of decemviri, composed entirely of patricians, assumed office in 451 BC, and was led by Appius Claudius Crassus and Titus Genucius Augurinus, who were consuls for that year.

* Appius Claudius Crassus, consul

* Appius Claudius Crassus, a decemvir in 451 BC

This cognomen was first adopted by Appius Claudius, the founder of the gens, and was retained by his descendants, until it was replaced by Crassus.

It was borne by members of the family from the 5th to the 3rd century BC The other main families of the patrician Claudii were descended from Appius Claudius Caecus, a member of this stirps ; his sons bore the surnames Crassus, Pulcher, Cento or Centho, and Nero.

f. C. n. Crassus Rufus, the eldest son of Appius Claudius Caecus, he was consul in 268 BC, and the last of the Claudii known to have borne the surname Crassus.

The decemvir Appius Claudius Crassus lusted after her and tried to use his power to take her as his own, possibly as a slave.

He was consul 130 BC with Lucius Cornelius Lentulus ( and consul suffectus Appius Claudius Pulcher ), and was sent into Anatolia against Aristonicus, who had defeated one of the consuls of the previous year, Publius Licinius Crassus Dives Mucianus.

She is also mentioned in the poem Appius and Virginia by John Webster and Thomas Heywood, which includes the following lines:

* With concerns rising in Rome over whether Philip V of Macedon is preparing for a new war with the Romans, Appius Claudius Pulcher is sent at the head of an embassy into Macedonia and Greece to observe Philip's activities.

Appius Claudius is said to have committed suicide as a result of these events.

Appius Claudius is said to have made an unjust decision which would have forced a young woman named Verginia into prostitution or as Appius ' personal slave, prompting her father to kill her, and this travesty caused an uprising against the Decemvirate ; the decemviri resigned their offices in 449 BC, and the ordinary magistrates ( magistratus ordinarii ) were re-instituted.

Appius Claudius Caecus is used in Cicero's Pro Caelio as a stern and disapproving ancestor to Clodia.

It is entirely possible that Appius Claudius was also a participant in that battle, and assumed the same surname in consequence of this, although he is not mentioned in any surviving accounts of that battle.

Appius is sometimes said to be of Oscan origin, since it is known chiefly from the descendants of Appius Claudius, a Sabine from the town of Cures, who came to Rome in the early years of the Republic, and was admitted to the Patriciate.

However, the praenomen Appius is known from other Latin sources, and may simply represent the Latin name closest in sound to Attius.

For example: Appius was used only by the Claudii, Caeso by the Fabii and the Quinctii, Agrippa by the Furii and the Menenii, Numerius by the Fabii, Mamercus by the Aemilii and the Pinarii, Vopiscus only by the Julii, and Decimus was not used by any patrician family ( unless the Junii were, as is sometimes believed, originally patrician ), although it was widely used amongst the plebeians.

His Appius and Virginia, probably written with Thomas Heywood, is of uncertain date.

If his tribunate is dated to 291, his actions advanced his own candidacy, but since Appius served three times as interrex, the earliest date accords better with the timeline of Dentatus's own career.

The tale is retold, with varying fidelity, in several works of Western literature, including Geoffrey Chaucer's " The Physician's Tale " in his Canterbury Tales, in Thomas Babington Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, and in the play Appius and Virginia by John Webster and Thomas Heywood, which includes the following lines:

In Latin literature, Appius Claudius Caecus uses this term in his Sententiæ, referring to the ability of man to control his destiny and what surrounds him: Homo faber suae quisque fortunae ( Every man is the artifex of his destiny ).

Bruun also concludes that Cicero, who remained the legal defender of Caelius, ultimately used the conceptual phrase aqua inceste uterere in “ referring to the commonly known possession of a water supply by some brothels in Rome, while at the same time implying that Clodia was a prostitute .” The body of Bruun ’ s Water for Roman Brothels is subdivided into multiple different subtopics ; the first one devoted to Cicero ’ s personification of Appius Claudius Caecus.

She is spotted one day by a judge, Appius who decides he must have her and forms a plan.