person
Appius Claudius Caudex
Claudius Caudex
also: Claudius, Caudex
Consul of 264 BC, said to have first persuaded the Romans to take to ships; his cognomen 'Caudex' (a plank-built hull) Seneca uses for an etymological aside.
Reading notes
- On the Shortness of Life §13.4 Caudex
Appius Claudius Caudex (cos. 264 BC), credited with first taking Romans to sea; his cognomen ('plank-hull') furnishes Seneca's etymology of codex/codicariae.