Arch of Claudius

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Arch of Claudius SPQR

Inscribed on arches on the Aqua Virgo in Rome, at Boulogne, France, and at Cysicus, Turkey, AD 51 or 52

The Roman Senate and People to Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, son of Drusus, Pontifex Maximus, Tribunician power eleven times, Consul five times,^[1] Imperator 22 times, Censor, Father of the Fatherland, because he received the surrender of eleven kings of the Britons defeated without any loss,^[2] and first brought barbarian peoples across the Ocean into the dominion of the Roman people.

[edit] Parallel sources

[edit] Classical sources

• Josephus, The War of the Jews 3.1.2
• Tacitus, Agricola 13-14
• Suetonius, Claudius 17, 21.6, 24.3, 28, Galba 7, Vitellius 2.4, Vespasian 4
• Dio Cassius, Roman History 60:19-22
• Eutropius, Abridgement of Roman History 7:13
• Orosius, Histories Against the Pagans 7.6

[edit] Medieval sources

• Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People 1.3
• Historia Brittonum 21
• Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain 4.12-15

[edit] Footnotes

1. ↑ Claudius's fifth consulship was in 51.
2. ↑ The Cyzicus inscription ends here.