The emperor needed soldiers, so Claudius is reported to have issued an edict forbidding new marriages.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 February 13 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference

Callistus, refers it to the 5th year of Claudius, that is about A.D.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary] Reference

He tells him to call Claudius and some other of his men: "I'd have them sleep on cushions in my tent.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rising of the Court] Reference

During the night, however, fearing lest Claudius would survive, she had called Claudius's physician, Xenophon, who was a friend of hers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Women of the Caesars]

"They called Claudius a lunatic," he said, "but just see what nice fancies he had.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference

Associated Press Gerhard Richter's "Claudius" displayed at Christie's auction house in London.    From Wordnik.com.  [Not a Pretty Picture at Auctions] Reference

I certainly wouldn't call Claudius dull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Claudius, by Douglas Jackson. Book review] Reference

"Claudius", 9; Zosimus, I, 42); Valens made it his winter quarters in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

"Claudius", 18) and a general famine was usually preceded by a more or less prolonged period of scarcity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

"I'm also thinking of such as Claudius, the scholar who was practically forced to take the Imperial mantle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Man] Reference

It takes its name from Appius Claudius the Censor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference

Claudius would never insist that I call him the next day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sociopathic Medicine] Reference

Jews from Rome by Claudius (Acts xviii. 2) was occasioned, says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

The only problem is that they never last as long as poor Claudius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sociopathic Medicine] Reference

Claudius laboured as a virtually mindless drone for the next fifteen years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sociopathic Medicine] Reference

Claudius was canonized among the gods, who scarcely deserved the name of man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference

Claudius 'own lips that Ophelia's father, old Polonius is the King's accomplice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

Having addressed his main constituency, Claudius next thinks about public relations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Confronting Confusion and Crises] Reference

Rome in 59; and we learn from Suetonius, that the emperor Claudius had a villa here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference

A shrewd crisis manager, Claudius attempts to stop the fighting and start the talking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Confronting Confusion and Crises] Reference

While Claudius and Laertes leap at the chance to kill, Hamlet's conscience stays his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Today’s Man] Reference

Claudius, the villain in Hamlet, is one of Shakespeare's most adept leaders in such confusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Confronting Confusion and Crises] Reference

Claudius gets the facts out quickly and succinctly, as a crisis manager must: "Dead," he replies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Confronting Confusion and Crises] Reference

Claudius confronts them directly, and hears Laertes demand, "O thou vile king, give me my father!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Confronting Confusion and Crises] Reference

Claudius informs his wife of this new twist to the crisis: "Her brother is in secret come from France.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Confronting Confusion and Crises] Reference

Claudius offers Laertes one crisis management principle he has already practiced, namely to seek outside counsel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ken Adelman: Bard Blog: Confronting Confusion and Crises] Reference

And there is the experienced Nettles as a Claudius who declines from avuncular jocularity to a rattled insecurity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hamlet] Reference

In the reign of Claudius women and boys were searched to ascertain whether there were styluses in their pen-cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

It has accommodation for 600 patients, and occupies the site of the Roman palace in which Claudius and Caligula were born.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

After supper he played with Imogene, Iago and Claudius until it was their bedtime and thereafter was unusually attentive to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creature from Cleveland Depths] Reference

Caradoc and his wife were brought before Claudius, who, in royal garments of purple and gold, was seated upon an ivory throne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from English History] Reference

In the "Annals" there are several gaps, but what survives describes a large part of the reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tacitus on Germany] Reference

Claudius was so pleased with his captive's wise and fearless reply that he had him restored to liberty, with his wife and family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories from English History] Reference

Claudius was directed to come in the habit of a singing girl, a character he could easily personate, being young and of a fair complexion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference