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Claudius, Appius
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
A Roman decemvir and patrician in 451 B.C.; outraged Virginia, a beautiful plebeian damsel, whom her father, on discovering of the crime, killed with a knife snatched from a butcher's stall, rousing thereby the popular rage against the decemvir, who was cast into prison, where he put an end to himself, 449 B.C.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Claudius, Appius'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​c/claudius-appius.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.