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The Claudian emperors were not the most popular, and I greatly doubt that their name would have been used in a flattering sense at the time. After all, when Claudius himself died (was murdered, actually), a satire appeared which claimed that while other emperors had become gods on their death, he became a pumpkin.

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I suspect that, whoever Lareina Rule is, she was trying to put a positive spin on Claudia for the people who might worry about that kind of thing. Which doesn't include me: there have been many thousands of Claude and Claudia people down the ages, and nothing indicates that more of them were physically challenged than the rest of the population.