In the early decades following the discovery of the luxurious House of the Centenary in 1879, August Mau proposed that Verus had been its owner.CIL IV.5229; August Mau, Pompeii: Its Life and Art, translated by Francis W. Kelsey (Macmillan, 1907), p. 559. It has also been argued that the Centenary's owner was Aulus Rustius Verus,Franklin, Pompeis Difficile Est, p. 134, citing Matteo Della Corte, pp. 216–217. with Claudius Verus living in an otherwise unidentified house at V.3. No scholarly consensus exists on Claudius Verus's address.Franklin, Pompeis Difficile Est, p. 134.
