Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

CLAU0713 Ap. Claudius (102) C. f. Ap. n. Caudex

Status

  • Patrician

Relationships

son of
C. Claudius (183) (Ap. f. P. n. Crassus) Inregillensis (dict. 337) (RE)
brother of
Ap. Claudius (91) C. f. Ap. n. Caecus (cos. 307) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Auct. vir. ill. 37.1, Gell. XVII 21.40

Career

  • Consul 264 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Fast. Cap. (names entire); Act. Tr., on Fulvius; Vell. 1.12.6; Val. Max. 2.4.7; Flor. 1, pref. 6; Gell. 17.21.40; Eutrop. 2.18.3; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Oros. 4.7.1, with Fabius for Fulvius; Cassiod.; see Degrassi, 40f., 74f., 115, 432f., 547. Claudius was sent to aid the Mamertines in Messana against Hiero, and to forestall the Carthaginians. He defeated both, ravaged much territory, and besieged Syracuse and Echetla (Polyb. 1.10-12, and 15; Liv. Per. 16, and Liv. 31.1.4; Diod. 23.1-3; Dio fr. 43; Zon. 8.8-9; cf. also Enn. Ann. 7.223 V; Vell. 2.38.2; Senec. Brev. Vit. 13.4; Sil. Ital. 6.660-662; Frontin. Str. 1.4.11; Suet. Tib. 2; Flor. 1.18.5; Gell. 17.21.40; Eutrop. 2.18.3; Ampel. 46.3; Auct. Vir. Ill. 37; Oros. 4.7.1; and Ined. Vat. in Hermes 27 [1892] 121). Eutropius (2.18.3) and Silius (6.660-662) credit Claudius with a triumph over the Afri and Hiero which is not included in Act. Tr., Degrassi, 547. Meantime Fulvius completed the reduction of Volsinii and celebrated a triumph (Act. Tr., Degrassi, 74f., 547; Fest. 228 L). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Triumphator? 264 (Itgenshorst 2005) Expand
    • Triumph? de Afreis et rege Siciliae Hierone. MRR I.202-3, Itgenshorst no.126a (triumphus incertus). Not listed in Rich. (Itgenshorst 2005)
  • Triumphator? 263 (Itgenshorst 2005) Expand
    • Triumph? de Afreis. MRR I.202-3, Itgenshorst no.126b (triumphus incertus). Not listed in Rich. (Itgenshorst 2005)

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