Gaius Claudius Pulcher (consul 92 BC)

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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]

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• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1867).

1. ^ Cicero pro Rctb. 7.
2. ^ Pliny Historia Naturalis viii. 7, xxxv. 7; Valerius Maximus ii. 4. § 6.
3. ^ Cicero, In Verre ii. 49.
4. ^ Cicero, In Verre iv. 3.
5. ^ Fasti Capitolini
6. ^ Cicero, Brutus 45