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He aggravated his barbarous actions by language equally outrageous.
"There is nothing in my nature," said he,' that I commend or approve so much as my a)diatreyi/a (inflexible rigour)." Upon his grandmother Antonia's giving him some advice, as if it was a small matter to pay no regard to it, he said to her, "Remember that all things are lawful for me." When about to murder his brother, whom he suspected of taking antidotes against poison, he said, "See then an andidote against Caesar!" And when he banished his sisters, he told them in a menacing tone, that he had not only islands at command, but also swords.
One of pretorian rank having sent several times from Anticyra,Anticyra, an island in the Archipelago, was famous for the growth of hellebore.
This plant being considered a remedy for insanity, the proverb arose: Navigia in Anticyram, as much as to say, "You are mad."
whither he had gone for his health, to have his leave of absence prolonged, he ordered him to be put to death
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Claudius (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 3 (search)
He applied himself, however, from an early age, with great assiduity to the study of the liberal sciences, and frequently published specimens of his skill in each of them.
But never, with all his endeavours, could he attain to any public post in the government, or afford any hope of arriving at distinction thereafter.
His mother, Antonia, frequently called him "an abortion of a man, that had been only begun, but never finished, by nature."
And when she would upbraid any one with dulness, she said, "He was a greater fool than her son, Claudius." His grandmother, Augusta, always treated him with the utmost contempt, very rarely spoke to him, and when she did admonish him upon any occasion, it was in writing, very briefly and severely, or by messengers.
His sister, Livilla, upon hearing that he was about to be created emperor, openly and loudly expressed her indignation that the Roman people should experience a fate so severe and so much below their grandeur.
To exhibit the opinion, bo
C. Suetonius Tranquillus, Divus Claudius (ed. Alexander Thomson), chapter 4 (search)