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Marcus Claudius Marcellus (cos. 51)

Consul in 51 BCE

🏛️ Career

  1. 64 BCE
    (aged 31)
    Quaestor

    Broughton: A colleague of Cato (a). Sobeck (49) identifies him with the Consul of 51.

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

    M. Porcius Cato (pr. 54) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.833, final 0.833): 64 BCE (Quaestor) , 54 BCE (Praetor)

    Ser. Sulpicius Rufus (cos. 51) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 51 BCE (Consul)

    A. Plautius Plotius (pr. 51) (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 54 BCE (Aedile) , 51 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Cosconius (pr. 54) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 54 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Fannius (pr. 54) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 54 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 54 BCE
    (aged 41)
    Praetor

    Broughton: The latest date possible under the Cornelian law.

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

    M. Porcius Cato (pr. 54) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.833, final 0.833): 64 BCE (Quaestor) , 54 BCE (Praetor)

    Ser. Sulpicius Rufus (cos. 51) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 51 BCE (Consul)

    A. Plautius Plotius (pr. 51) (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 54 BCE (Aedile) , 51 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Cosconius (pr. 54) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 54 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Fannius (pr. 54) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 54 BCE (Praetor)

  3. 51 BCE
    (aged 44)
    Consul · Co-consul: Ser. Sulpicius Rufus (cos. 51)

    Broughton: 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 (a). 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 (b).

    Sources (3)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • 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.
      • (a) 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
      • (b) Cic. Att. 5.2.3, and 11.2; Plut. Caes. 29.1; App. BC 2.26; cf. Suet. Iul. 28
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    M. Porcius Cato (pr. 54) (2 years; raw 5.00, base 0.833, final 0.833): 64 BCE (Quaestor) , 54 BCE (Praetor)

    Ser. Sulpicius Rufus (cos. 51) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 51 BCE (Consul)

    A. Plautius Plotius (pr. 51) (2 years; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 54 BCE (Aedile) , 51 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Cosconius (pr. 54) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 54 BCE (Praetor)

    C. Fannius (pr. 54) (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 54 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

  1. Parents
    Marcus Claudius Marcellus (pr. 74)
  2. Siblings
    Gaius Claudius Marcellus (cos. 49)
  3. Related
    Gaius Claudius Marcellus (cos. 50)