Gaius Claudius Pulcher (consul 92 BC)
Gaius Claudius Pulcher was a Roman Republic consul in 92 BC, together with Marcus Perperna. His great-grandfather was Gaius Claudius Pulcher (consul 177 BC).
In 100 BC he was one of those took up arms against Saturninus.[1] In 99 BC he was curule aedile, and in the games celebrated by him elephants were for the first time exhibited in the circus, and painting employed in the scenic decorations.[2] In 85 BC he was praetor in Sicily, and, by direction of the senate, gave laws to the Halesini respecting the appointment of their senate.[3] The Mamertines made him their patronus.[4] He was consul in 92 BC.[5] Cicero speaks of him as a man possessed of great power and some ability as an orator.[6]
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Claudius (32)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. pp. 769–70.
- ^ Cicero pro Rctb. 7.
- ^ Pliny the Elder Historia Naturalis viii. 7, xxxv. 7; Valerius Maximus ii. 4. § 6.
- ^ Cicero, In Verre ii. 49.
- ^ Cicero, In Verre iv. 3.
- ^ Fasti Capitolini
- ^ Cicero, Brutus 45