Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Clausus

CLAUSUS, a Sabine leader, who is said to have assisted Aeneas, and who was regarded as the ancestor of the Claudia gens. (Virg. Aen. vii. 706, &c.) App. Claudius, before the migrated to Rome, was called in his own country Attus, or Atta Clausus.