Person — one identity, discriminated; every claim below carries its ground or says it has none

Appius Claudius (the decemvir)

fl. 451–449 BCE · dates conventional · identity conventional receipt — the person layer

The decemvir of the Twelve Tables whose lust for Verginia brought the decemvirate down — served as Livy tells it, with early-Rome's honest wobble.

Who he is — which bearer of the name; the grounds are named

Livy's Appius: the decemvir who tried presents, promises, then violence against Verginia. conventional

excited Appius' passions, and he tried to prevail on her by presents and promises. When he found that her virtue was proof against all temptation, he had recourse to unscrupulous and brutal violence. He commissioned a client, M. Claudius, to claim the girl as his slave, Liv. 3.44 The History of Rome · Livy

Early-Republic narrative is the tradition's own telling — Niebuhr's demolition of legendary Rome stands on the shelf; the identification is served conventional, not secure.

How to tell him apart — the record confusing and un-confusing its own names; doors to the other men

Appius is nearly a title in this house: Livy's record holds many. secure The 'appius' drawer (159 mentions) runs from the decemvir to Appius Claudius Caecus and the Pulchri; the emperor Claudius stands in a different drawer under the same gens name. The desk splits the two drawers' marquee men first. the other man: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus

The career — offices and deeds as the record states them

On the bench he bends the liberty law itself to his verdict on Verginia. conventional

Before giving judgment, Appius showed how liberty was upheld by that very law to which the friends of Verginia had appealed in support of their demand. But, he went on to say, it guaranteed liberty only so far as its provisions were strictly adhered to as regarded both persons and cases. Liv. 3.45 The History of Rome · Livy

The authorities — the registers cited page-anchored, never reprinted

The Republic's register awaits its lane; the row stands alignment-open. secure The Republic's digital register (DPRR, the Broughton-backed graph at romanrepublic.ac.uk) is the alignment authority this row awaits; its license could not be verified in writing when this wave was curated, so the dprr_uri column stands reserved and empty — an identity convention, not an ingested claim. Smith's Dictionary stands referee meanwhile, page-anchored.

Doors — where this identity stands in the house

the record's drawer

his name's drawer, shared with his homonyms — the counts belong to the name, not the man. Appius, the figure — 159 mentions across 96 episodes, counted by the house's first pass.

The name's other bearers — identities sharing ‘claudius’; the desk keeps them apart

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus — 10 BCE – 54 CE

The record here: 166 works · 12,119 episodes served · identities carry claims, claims carry grounds — episode, page, or an honest open · dprr alignment reserved, nothing fetched

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