proper nounClaudĭānusCLAVDIANVS☆ KeepMeaninga Roman poet of AlexandriaLewis & Short 1879ModernAs printed, 1879CLAUDIANUSLEWIS & SHORTCLAUDIANUSClaudĭānus, i, m. Claudius, I. a Roman poet of Alexandria, of the time of Theodosius the Great and his sons, several of whose panegyric poems are extant, Symm. Ep. 9, 13.Read the whole entryIn the Academy Smith's classical dictionariesBiography & mythologyClaudianusClaudianus (Κλαυδιανός), the author of five epigrams in the Greek Anthology (Brunck, Anal. ii. p. 447; Jacobs, iii. p. 153), is commonly identified wi…