Marcus Claudius Marcellus (Consul 196 BC)
Marcus Claudius Marcellus († 177 BC ) was a politician of the Roman Republic and came from the plebeian branch of the influential patrician family of the Claudians , who carried the cognomen Marcellus. He was 196 BC Chr. Consul . At the end of the same year he was also appointed pontiff . In 189 BC He held the office of censor .
Political career
Marcus Claudius Marcellus served in 208 BC. As a military tribune under his father of the same name, Marcus Claudius Marcellus . That year his father died in a battle in which the younger Marcellus was seriously wounded. Regardless of this, he was commissioned by the consul Titus Quinctius Crispinus to lead his father's legions to the safe Venusia .
204 BC He was elected to the office of tribune ( tribunus plebis ). Four years later he was given the office of curular aedile ( aedilis curulis ) together with Sextus Aelius Paetus Catus . He continued his official career, the course honorum , in 198 BC. BC through the Praetur over Sicily .
196 BC Marcellus was elected consul together with Lucius Furius Purpureo , the highest office in the course honorum. He could not achieve his great goal of resuming the Macedonian War during his tenure . The people felt bound by the peace treaty that Titus Quinctius Flamininus had negotiated with Macedonia two years earlier. Marcellus instead had to go to Gallia cisalpina to wage war against various Gallic tribes. His initial defeat to the Boier was quickly forgotten as he recorded a great victory against the Insubrians and took the important city of Comum . Together with his consulate colleague L. Furius Purpurio, he was able to gain further advantages over the Boians and the Ligurians . On his return to Rome he was honored with a triumph for his deeds .
In the same year he was appointed pontiff .
193 BC Marcellus served again under the consul Lucius Cornelius Merula and took part in the victory at Mutina over the Boier.
The office of censor was given to him together with Titus Quinctius Flamininus in 189 BC. Transferred. During her tenure, the census was also carried out for the first time in Formiae (today Formia ), Fundi (today Fondi ) and Arpinum (today Arpino ). Thus, the inhabitants of these cities obtained full Roman citizenship . Marcus Claudius Marcellus died in 177 BC. Chr.
literature
- Hans Georg Gundel : I Claudius 16. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, column 1207.
- Wolfgang Kunkel : State order and state practice of the Roman Republic . Second part. The Magistratur (= Handbook of Classical Studies . Volume 10,3,2,2). CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-33827-5 , VI. The People's Tribunate, e) Plebiscites on one's own initiative in agreement with the Senate , p. 616.
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Claudius Marcellus, Marcus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marcellus, Marcus Claudius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman consul |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 177 BC Chr. |