He forbade all persons, under severe penalties, to sacrifice to him, as they had done to Calig'ula.

He was assiduous in hearing and examining complaints; and frequently administered justice in person with great mildness.

To his solicitude for the internal advantages of the state, he added that of a watchful guardianship over the provinces.

He restored Jude'a to Her'od Agrip'pa,[22] which Calig'ula had taken from Her'od Antipas, his uncle, the man who had put John the Baptist to death, and who was banished by order of the present emperor.[23] [Illustration: Triumph of Claudius.] 6.

He even undertook to gratify the people by foreign conquest.
The Britons, who had for nearly a hundred years been left in quiet possession of their own island, began to seek the mediation of Rome, to quell their intestine commotions.7.The principal man who desired to subject his native country to the Roman dominion, was one Ber'icus, who persuaded the emperor to make a descent upon the island, magnifying the advantages that would attend the conquest of it.8.