Claudia, A gentlewoman of Rome, whiche for hit curious apparel, was infamed to be vnchaste. But when the ymage of Cybéle, called mother of the Goddes, was broughte out of Phrygia to Rome, in a Barge by the riuer of Tiber, it hapned to sticke so faste in a shallome place, that it might not be remoued with any force. This mayden, kneeling downe desired the Goddesse, that as she being a cleane virgin, and falselie slaundered, the saide ymage woulde vouchsafe to followe hir to the citie, And then she only tying hir girdle to the Barge, easilie drew it to the lande, which al the youth of the citie were not able co do.Claudia.Is also a towne of Noricum, called also Claudiuium.
Claudius, The proper name of diuerse Romaynes, and also the surname of a noble familie in Rome, whiche were euer repugnant to the actes of the common people.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Claudĭa, ae, f.I.A Roman female name; v. Claudius.—II.A town of Noricum, Plin. 3, 24, 27, 146.
Claudĭus (Clōdĭus, like claudo and clodo, codex and caudex, plostrum and plaustrum, etc.), Claudĭa, Clōdĭa, the name of two very celebrated Roman gentes (one patrician, the other plebeian; cf. Suet. Tib. 1 and 2; Verg. A. 7, 708; Liv. 2, 16, 4). A. Claudius; so, 1. App. Claudius Caecus (v. Appius).—2.The historian Q. Claudius Quadrigarius, a contemporary of Sulla and Sisenna, Vell. 2, 9, 6; Gell. 1, 7, 9.—Called simply Claudius, Liv. 8, 19, 13; 9, 5, 2.—3.The emperor Claudius; in full, Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus, Suet. Claud. 1 sqq.; Tac. A. 11, 1 sqq.—4. In fem.: Claudĭa, a female of the gens Claudia.—B. Clodius. Thus the restless tribune of the people, and enemy of Cicero, P. Clodius Pulcher, who was killed by Milo; v. Cic. Mil.—II. Hence, A. Claudĭus (Clōd-), a, um, Claudian, Clodian: Via Claudia (Clodia), a branch of the Via Cassia, Ov. P. 1, 8, 44; Front. Aquaed. 11.—Aqua Claudia, an aqueduct begun by the emperor Caligula, and finished by the emperor Claudius, Front. Aquaed. 13 sq.; Suet. Claud. 20 Bremi.—Tribus Claudia, beyond the Anio, named after the progenitor of the gens Claudia, Liv. 2, 16, 5; Verg. A. 7, 708; cf. Serv. in h. l.—Leges Clodiae,
proceeding from the tribune of the people
,
Clodius
, Cic. Sest. 25 and 26; cf. Orell. Ind. Leg. s. h. v.—B. Claudĭānus, a, um, adj., of or pertaining to a Claudius (esp. to the emperor of this name): castra,
of App. Claudius Pulcher
, Liv. 23, 31, 3: tonitrua, named after the same, Paul. ex Fest. p. 57, 10 Müll.: tempora,
of the emperor Claudius
, Tac. A. 14, 11; id. H. 5, 12: cometa,
visible in his time
, Sen. Q. N. 7, 21 and 29.—C. Clōdĭ-ānus, a, um, adj., pertaining to Clodius, the enemy of Cicero: crimen,