"Claudius, who was a good emperor, then victim of Messalina's ugliness, for Seneca's bloody irony, who flattered him while he was alive and defamed him after his death, for the stories collected by Suetonius, he paid, first in life and then in history, in literature, in novels and in theatre, the ridicule brought upon him by Messalina's turpitudes, which he tolerated for too long, although, as we said, he did not reach the gullibility of Marcus Aurelius."
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Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (10 BC – AD 54), or Claudius, was a Roman emperor, ruling from AD 41 to 54. A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, Claudius was born to Drusus and Antonia Minor at Lugdunum in Roman Gaul, where his father was stationed as a military legate. He was the first Roman emperor to be born outside Italy.
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