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The patrician family of the Claudii (for there was a plebeian family of the same name, no way inferior to the other either in power or dignity) came originally from Regilli, a town of the Sabines. They removed thence to
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Rome
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soon after the building of the city, with a great body of their dependants, under Titus Tatius, who reigned jointly with
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Romulus
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in the kingdom; or, perhaps, what is related upon better authority, under Atta Claudius, the head of the family, who was admitted by the senate into the patrician order six years after the expulsion of the Tarquins. They likewise received from the state, lands beyond the Anio for their followers, and a burying place for themselves near the capitol.
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After this period, in process of time, the family had the honour of twenty-eight consulships, five dictatorships, seven censorships, seven triumphs, and two ovations. Their descendants were distinguished by various
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praenomina
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and
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cognomina
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,
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but rejected by common consent the praenomen of
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Lucius
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, when, of the two races who bore it, one individual had been convicted of robbery, and another of murder. Amongst other cognomina, they assumed that of
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Nero
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, which in the
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Sabine
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language signifies strong and valiant.