a virgin at Rome, who being suspected of unchastity, is said to have been cleared from that imputation in the following manner: the image of Cybele being brought out of Phrygia to Rome in a barge, and it happening to stick so fast in the river Tyber that it could not be moved, she tying her girdle, the badge of chastity, to the barge, drew it. Claudia, it along to the city, which a thousand men were unable to do.

**Claudia Aqua** (Frontinus), water conveyed to Rome by a canal or aqueduct of eleven miles in length, the contrivance of Appius Claudius the censor, and the first structure of the kind, in the year of Rome 441. Called also **Aqua Appia**.

**Claudia Copia** (Inscriptions), a name of Lugdunum, or Lyons in France; the birth-place of the emperor Claudius: A Roman colony, called Claudia, from its benefactor the emperor; and Copia, from its plenty of all necessaries, especially corn. See **Lugdunum**.

**Claudia**, or **Clodia Via** (Ovid), was that road which, beginning at the Pons Milvius, joined the Flaminia, passing through Etruria, on the south side of the Lacus Sabatinus, and striking off from the Caffia, and leading to Luca (Antonine): large remains of it are to be seen above Bracciano (Hollstein).

**Claudia Lex, de Comitiis**, was enacted by M. Cl. Marcellus in the year of Rome 702. It ordained, that at public elections of magistrates no notice should be taken of the votes of such as were absent. Another, **de Ufuria**, which forbade people to lend money to minors on condition of payment, after the decease of their parents. Another, **de Negotiatione**, by Q. Claudius the tribune, 535. It forbade any senator or father of a senator to have any vessel containing above 300 amphorae, for fear of their engaging themselves in commercial schemes. The same law also forbade the same thing to the scribes and the attendants of the questors, as it was naturally supposed that people who had any commercial connections could not be faithful to their trust nor promote the interest of the state. Another, 576, to permit the allies to return to their respective cities, after their names were enrolled. Liv. 41. c. 9. Another, to take away the freedom of the city of Rome from the colonists which Caesar had carried to Novicommum.