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The Rest Is History

537. Emperors of Rome: Claudius, Paranoia and Poison (Part 4)

06 Feb 2025

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0.149 - 15.602 Dominic Sandbrook

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117.281 - 139.107 Dominic Sandbrook

When the conspirators who were lurking in wait for Caligula moved everyone else along on the grounds that the emperor wished to be alone, Claudius retreated to a wing of the palace known as the Hermaeum. Not long afterwards, alarmed by the distant shouts of murder, crept away to a nearby balcony where he hid himself behind the curtains hanging in front of the door.

139.947 - 162.566 Dominic Sandbrook

There he cowered, and as he did so, a soldier who happened to be wandering past noticed his feet and dragged him out, intending to ask him who he was. But then, as he sank to his knees in terror, recognised him and hailed him as Emperor. The soldier then led him away to where the other Praetorians were all milling around, uncertain what to do.

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The soldiers put him in a litter, and because his own attendants had run away, took it in turns to carry the unhappy and fearful man on their shoulders to their camp, and all the crowds they passed on the way pitied him on the assumption that he was an innocent being bundled off to execution.

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