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"Claudius was often portrayed as an awkward, disfigured, and clumsy man. Cast out by his own family as a boy, he was utterly detested by his mother. No-one ever expected that the boy that was used as the comparative standard for stupidity would become the emperor of Rome. Yet, he did."

"Claudius desperately needed the support of the soldiers since he was the first emperor not to have been chosen by the Senate."