CLAU2398 M. Claudius (229) M. f. M. n. Marcellus

Status

  • Nobilis Expand

    Cic. Marc. 1.4, 3.8, 4.10, Cic. Lig. 12.37

Life Dates

  • 95?, birth (Sumner Orators) Expand

    Sumner R202.

  • 47, exiled (Kelly 2006) Expand

    To Mytilene. Kelly no. 54.

  • 46, recalled (Kelly 2006) Expand

    Kelly no. 54.

  • 45, death - violent (Kelly 2006) Expand

    Murdered by client, P. (or Cn.) Magius Cilo, in Athens, while returning from exile. Kelly no. 54.

Relationships

son of
M. Claudius (227) M. f. Arn. Marcellus (pr.? before 74) (RE)
brother of
? C. Claudius (217) M. f. M. n. Marcellus (cos. 49) (DPRR Team)
related to
C. Claudius (216) C. f. M. n. Marcellus (cos. 50) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. fam. XII 2.2, Cic. fam. XV 10

Career

  • Quaestor 64 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • A colleague of Cato (Plut. Cat. Min. 18.3-4). Sobeck (49) identifies him with the Consul of 51. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Aedilis Curulis? before 55 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 1 Note the monogram MAR in ligature inscribed on the statue of the "Hellenistic Ruler." P. Williams suggests that it is a mark from the aedileship of C. Claudius Marcellus (AJA 49 [1945] 344f.; cf. Rhys Carpenter, ibid. 357). (Broughton MRR II)
    • A candidate for the aedileship of 56 (Cic. Ait. 4.3.5). Münzer (RE no. 216; Hermes 40 [1905] 97) is inclined to identify this Marcellus with C. Marcellus, Cos. 50. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Praetor before 53 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • The latest date possible under the Cornelian law. (Broughton MRR II)
    • p. 750, footnote 336 (Brennan 2000)
  • Consul 51 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • CIL 12.2.770, 934; Oic. Att. 5.21.9; Cael. in Fam. 8.8.5, and 10.3; Cic. Fam. 12.15.2; Sall. Hist. 1.11 M; Liv. Per. 108; Dio 40, Index, and 30.3, and 58.3; Chr. 354 (Rufo et Marcello), so also Fast. Hyd., and Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; on Sulpicius, Cic. Fam. 3.3. 1; Plut. Cat. Min. 49.2; Ammian. Marc. 15.12.6; and on Marcellus, Cic. Fam. 4.7.2; 15.9; Eutrop. 6.19.2; and cf. O. Broneer, AJA 36 (1932) 395-397. See Degrassi 132, 496f. The strongly anti-Caesarian attitude of Marcellus who attempted to raise the question of a successor to Caesar in Gaul was opposed both by his colleague and by Pompey (Cael. in Cic. Fam. 8. 1. 2, and 2.2, and 5.3; Cic. Fam. 4.1.1, and 2.3, and 3.1, and 9.2; Att. 8.3.3; Suet. Iul. 28-29; App. BC 2.25-26; Plut. Caes. 29; Dio 40.59.1; Eutrop. 6.19.2, and Oros. 6.15.1, who confuse the Marcelli of 51 and 50). Marcellus even went the length of scourging a citizen of Novum Comum, to show that he did not recognize Caesar's claim that they were citizens (Cic. Att. 5.2.3, and 11.2; Plut. Caes. 29.1; App. BC 2.26; cf. Suet. Iul. 28). (Broughton MRR II)