Claudius Xenophon (or Xenephon) was a governor of Britannia Inferior, a province of Roman Britain around AD 223. He is named on two milestones with nearly identical texts, which can be dated to that year.RIB 2299, a mile east of Vindolanda on the north side of the Stanegate, (translated in RIB as "under the charge of Claudius Xenophon, emperor's propraetorian legate"); 2306, near Milecastle 42 of Hadrian's Wall, at Cawfields, the same text, but with the name written out and spelt Xenephonte. He succeeded Marius Valerianus, whose rule is attested in AD 222; and Xenophon's governorship must have ended by AD 225, when another governor is mentioned in a fragmentary inscription, which only provides part of the name (Maximus). He is also mentioned in inscriptions in VindolandaRIB 1706 (translated in RIB as "under Claudius Xenephon, our emperor's propraetorian legate of Lower Britain") and perhaps at Chesters.RIB 1467 . Birley, p. 342 n. 24, thinks the incomplete name could also belong to Tiberius Claudius Paulinus or to Claudius Xenophon's successor Maximus. His father is thought to be a , who is mentioned in inscriptions and papyri in various procuratorships in Egypt and Dacia under Commodus.Groag and Stein (1936) p. 256 n. 1052, p. 257 n. 1054; Birley (2005) 345-6.
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Further reading A.R. Birley, The Roman Government of Britain (Oxford:OUP) 2005 E. Groag & R. Stein (edd.) Prosopographia Imperii Romani Saec.I.II.III II (Berlin:de Gruyter) 1936