A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

1. Q.Claudius, a plebeian, was tribune of the plebs in B. C. 218, when he brought forward a law that no senator, or son of a person of senatorial rank, should possess a ship of the burden of more than 300 amphorae. (Liv. xxi. (63.) The Q. Claudius Flamen, who was praetor in B. C. 208, and had Tarentum assigned to him as his province, is probably the same person. (Liv. xxvii 21, 22, 43, 28.10.)