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REPUBLICAN RAG
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| Suetonius states that Claudius as a boy did start work on a Roman history beginning with Julius Caesar, skipping a few years, then continuing at the close of the Civil Wars. The years skipped would have covered Augustus' rise to power. It is a period of Roman History, whose contemporary accounts were subsequently silenced. The reason given for Claudius' lacuna: admonishments from his mother and grandmother. Suetonius would have us believe that even as emperor, with both of these harpies dead, Claudius was afraid to fill in the gap in his History. hmmm. Perhaps once you are emperor, republicanism and its adherents lose some of their luster. | |||||