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The underlying idea in this use is generally cause, sometimes concession. CLAVUM: 'tiller'. With this passage Lahmeyer well compares what Cicero says of himself in Fam. 9, 15, 3 sedebamus in puppi et clavum tenebamus; nunc autem vix est in sentina locus.
CENSOR ... ANTE CONSULATUM: this was unusual, and therefore to Claudius' honor. GRANDEM SANE: 'undoubtedly old'. ET TAMEN SIC: i.e. eum tum grandem fuisse Lahmeyer wrongly says that sic points to the words atque haec ille egit. It may be noted that sic takes the place of an object after accipimus, cf. 77 ita crederem; 78 sic mihi persuasi, also 18 male cogitanti.
It appears in the well-known epitaph said to have been written by himself, also in the lines written against him by the family poet of the Metelli: 'malum dabunt Metelli Naevio poetae'. The name poeta was new in Naevius' time and was just displacing the old Latin name vates; see Munro on Lucr. 1, 102. PROVENIEBANT etc.: the same metre as above, divided thus by Lahmeyer:
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