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a soldier of Caligula's body-guard, who, after the assassination of that emperor, discovered and drew Claudius from his hiding-place in the palace, and presented him to the soldiers as a Germanicus, the proper heir to the empire. (J. AJ 19.3.1; comp. Suet. Cl. 10; Dio Cass. lx. ].)

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    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 19.3.1
    • Suetonius, Divus Claudius, 10
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