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

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus

10 BCE – 54 CE · dates secure · identity secure receipt — the person layer

The fourth emperor: found behind a curtain and made princeps, dead of a disputed mushroom — one bearer of Rome's oldest patrician name.

Who he is — which bearer of the name; the grounds are named
Suetonius' scene: a soldier finds the hidden Claudius by his feet and hails him emperor. secure
he stole away to a balcony hard by and hid among the curtains which hung before the door. Ashe cowered there, a common soldier, who was prowling about at random, saw his feet, and intending to ask who he was, pulled him out and recognized him; Suet. Claud. 10 The Deified Claudius · Suetonius
How to tell him apart — the record confusing and un-confusing its own names; doors to the other men
The drawer 'claudius' holds an emperor and a Republic of Claudii. secure 379 mentions attach to the one slug: the emperor beside Appius the decemvir, Appius Claudius Pulcher, and the rest of the gens. This row and its counter begin the split. the other man: Appius Claudius (the decemvir)
The career — offices and deeds as the record states them
His death is served as the record's own dispute: poisoned by general belief, but when and by whom is contested. secure
That Claudius was poisoned is the general belief, but when it was done and by whom is disputed. Suet. Claud. 44 The Deified Claudius · Suetonius
the deed: death of Claudius
The authorities — the registers cited page-anchored, never reprinted
PIR C 752 dates the death to the very day — citing the same Tacitus and Suetonius chapters the house serves. secure
Mortuus est Romae die 13 mensis Octobris anni 54, ut vulgo putabatur, veneno occisus, sive boleto medicato accepto sive veneno hausto Tac. a. 12, 66-69, Sueton. Cl. 44-45, Prosopographia Imperii Romani, Pars I (Klebs, 1897), p. 390 cited, never reprinted — the apparatus shelf
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. Claudius, the figure — 379 mentions across 290 episodes, counted by the house's first pass.

The name's other bearers — identities sharing ‘claudius’; the desk keeps them apart
Appius Claudius (the decemvir) — fl. 451–449 BCE

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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