1. APP.CLAUDIUSSABINUSREGILLENSIS, a Sabine of the town of Regiilum or Regilli, who
in his own country bore the name of Attus Clausus (or, according to some, Atta Claudius;
Dionysius calls him Τίτος Κλαύδιος), being the
advocate of peace with the Romans, when hostilities broke out between the two nations shortly
after the beginning of the commonwealth, and being vehemently opposed by most of his
countrymen, withdrew with a large train of followers to Rome. (B. C.
504.) He was forthwith received into the ranks of the patricians, and lands beyond the
Anio were assigned to his followers, who were formed into a new tribe, called the Claudian.
(Liv. 2.16, 4.3, 10.8; Dionys. A. R. 5.40, 11.15; Sueton. Tib. 1; Tac. Ann. 11.24, 12.25; Niebuhr,
i. p. 560.) He exhibited the characteristics which marked his descendants, and, in his consulship (B. C. 495),
shewed great severity towards the plebeian debtors. (Liv. 2.21,
23, 24, 27;
Dionys. A. R. 6.23, 24, 27, 30.)
Next year, on the refusal of the commons to enlist, we find him proposing the appointment of a
dictator. (Liv. 2.29.) We find him manifesting the same bitter
hatred of the plebs at the time of the secession to the Mons Sacer, in B.
C. 494 (Dionys. A. R. 6.59, &c.), of the
famine in 493 (Dionys. A. R. 7.15), and of the impeachment
of Coriolanus. (Dionys. A. R. 7.47, &c.) He is made by
Dionysius (8.73, &c.) to take a prominent part in
opposing the agrarian law of Sp. Cassius. According to Pliny (Plin.
Nat. 35.3) he was the first who set up images of his ancestors in a public temple
(that of Bellona).