Appius Claudius Crassus

Reading notes

• The History of Rome, Book 4 §35 Appius Claudius Crassus

  Grandson of the decemvir; revived his ancestor's stratagem of breaking the tribunes by setting their own colleagues' vetoes against them.

• The History of Rome, Book 5 §1 Appius Claudius Crassus

  Grandson of the decemvir; revived his ancestor's stratagem of breaking the tribunes by setting their own colleagues' vetoes against them.

• The History of Rome, Book 6 §40 Appius Claudius Crassus, grandson of the decemvir

  Grandson of the tyrant decemvir; he delivers the great patrician oration against the Licinian laws—a defense of the auspices and of the citizen's free vote.

• The History of Rome, Book 7 §6 Appius Claudius

  The patrician orator (of the great speech against the Licinian laws in Book 6) who had opposed the law and was now named dictator.