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

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.

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.

* 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.

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

Appius Claudius Crassus is said to have made an unjust decision which would have forced a young woman named Verginia into prostitution, prompting her father to kill her.

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.

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.

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

* Attius may be the Oscan equivalent of the Latin praenomen Appius, since the Sabine Attius Clausus took the name Appius Claudius upon settling at Rome ; however, it could also simply have been the closest praenomen in sound.

Bruun argues that within § 34 of Pro Caelio Cicero powerfully employs “ the oratorical technique of “ personification ” or “ speech in character ” ( prosopopeia ) and for a while pretended, apparently both by gestures and by voice, to be one of Clodia ’ s most famous ancestors, the censor Appius Claudius Caecus .” According to Bruun, Appius proclaims to have spurred three major civic accomplishments, while for each Cicero attempts to point out a reason why Clodia should be ashamed of herself for immorality connected with the Appian works.

Lucullus perhaps sent young Appius with deliberate purpose, knowing full well that his manner was likely to be ill received at the court of the King of Kings.

Also of those who fell in that same war there are M. Bibulus, who wrote with accuracy as well, particularly since he was no orator, and resolutely conducted many suits ; Appius Claudius your father-in-law, my colleague and friend.

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Appius and Ahenobarbus ( or, less frequently, year 700 Ab urbe condita ).

Born as Publius Claudius Pulcher in 93 BC, the youngest son of Appius Claudius, he became known as Publius Clodius after his controversial adoption into the plebeian family of Fontei in 59 BC.

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.

Marcus Appius Bradua, also known by his full name Marcus Atilius Metilius Bradua ( Greek: Μαρκόν Άππιον Βραδούαν ) was a distinguished Roman Politician who lived in the second half of the 1st century and the first half of the 2nd century in the Roman Empire.

" 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.

In this case, he derived this surname from the name of Appius Claudius Pulcher, whom he intended to flatter.

Livia Drusilla, wife of the emperor Augustus, whose father was adopted into the Livia gens from the Claudius | Claudii, the clan of the renowned Appius Claudius.

Born Appius Claudius Pulcher, a member of the Claudii descended from Appius Claudius Caecus, he was received into the house of the tribune as an infant and was brought up along with the tribune's nieces and nephews by the tribune's wife, Servilia, sister of Livia Drusa's first husband.

In 50 BC, the censor Appius Claudius Pulcher removed him from the Senate on the grounds of gross immorality ( probably really because of his opposition to Milo and Cicero ).

Appius Claudius Caecus (" the blind "; c. 340 BC – 273 BC ) was a Roman politician from a wealthy patrician family.

The first of the Claudii to obtain the consulship was Appius Claudius Sabinus Regillensis, in 495 BC, and from that time its members frequently held the highest offices of the state, both under the Republic and in imperial times.

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.

* Lucius Furius, tribunus plebis in 307 BC, prevented the comitia from electing Appius Claudius Caecus to the consulship, unless he consented to lay down his censorship, in accordance with the law.

Two other notable transactions took place in 76 or 75 BC following Lucullus ' return from Africa, his marriage to Claudia the youngest daughter of Appius Claudius Pulcher, and his purchase of the Marian hill top villa at Cape Misenum from Sulla's wretchedly avaricious eldest daughter Cornelia.

A transportation network consisting of hard-surfaced highways, using concrete made from volcanic ash and lime, was built by the Romans as early as 312 BCE, during the times of the Censor Appius Claudius Caecus.

The early tragedies of Appius and Virginia, and Tancred and Gismund were taken from The Palace of Pleasure ; and among better-known plays derived from the book are the Shakespearean Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Edward III, All's Well That Ends Well ( from Giletta of Narbonne ), Beaumont and Fletcher's Triumph of Death, John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and James Shirley's Love's Cruelty.

Regrettably they do not include any of Appius ' replies to Cicero as extant texts of any sort by members of Rome's ruling aristocracy are quite few and rare, apart from those of Julius Caesar.

As an augur he engaged in heated debate with his senior colleague C. Claudius Marcellus ( praetor 80 BC ), who maintained that augury was established from a belief in divination but perpetuated through political expediency, while Appius strongly advocated an extreme traditionalist view upholding the authenticity of the craft and eventually published a noted Liber auguralis which included a good deal of polemic directed against " Marcelline " modernity.

His typically Claudian arrogance, so evident from Cicero's correspondence with him and with Marcus Caelius Rufus, is also mentioned in a letter to Cicero from Publius Vatinius ( consul 47 BC ), who was Caesar's nominee to take Appius ' place in the augural college after the latter's death: