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Marcus Claudius Marcellus (pr. 74)

Aedile in 91 BCE. Also maybe praetor before 74

🏛️ Career

  1. 91 BCE
    Aedile ·curule

    Brougthon: The date is given by the dramatic date of the De Oratore of Cicero, in September, 91. Even if the clause containing his title is a gloss, the Roman games which he gave at that time require a Curule Aedile.

    Sources (1)
    • MRR2
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    C. Verres (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 74 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 74 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Antonius Creticus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 74 BCE (Praetor)

    P. Coelius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 74 BCE (Praetor)

    P. Cornelius Lentulus Sura (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 74 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 74 BCE
    Praetor

    Broughton: M. Claudius Marcellus (226), Praetor, uncertain date; M. Claudius M. f. Arn. Marcellus (227), Praetor, uncertain date. The former was senior legate of Marius in 102 (MRR 1.569, 570, note 6), whom Sumner considers to be already a praetorius (a). He was also a senior legate under L. Iulius Caesar in 90 and was the defender of Aesernia under siege (b). He had already come under attack from L. Licinius Crassus, Cos. 95, in the later 90s and was acquitted (c). Sumner distinguishes him from the curule aedile of 91 (d), and with Munzer on RE no. 227 identifies the latter with the M. Claudius M. f. Arn. Marcellus, the senior praetorius listed in the consilium of 73 (e), who must have held the praetorship many years before. It is not certain how offices should be divided between nos. 226 and 227 (f).

    MT: citation above taken from and confirmed in DPPR

    Sources (6)
    • Broughton, MMR3
      • (a) Orators 91-93
      • (b) E. Gabba, Comm. on App. BC 1.4042; cf. MRR 2.28
      • (c) Cic. Font. 24; Val. Max. 8.5.3; cf. Gruen, RPCC 194, 204
      • (d) Orators 93; cf. MRR 2.21, note 7
      • (e) SIG(3) 747; Sherk, RDGE 133-138, no. 23
      • (f) Sumner, loc. cit.; Syme, CPh 50, 1955, 132
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    C. Verres (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 74 BCE (Praetor)

    L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 74 BCE (Praetor)

    M. Antonius Creticus (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 74 BCE (Praetor)

    P. Coelius (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 74 BCE (Praetor)

    P. Cornelius Lentulus Sura (1 year; raw 3.00, base 1.000, final 1.000): 74 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

  1. Children
    Gaius Claudius Marcellus (cos. 49) Marcus Claudius Marcellus (cos. 51)