Publius Claudius Pulcher (consul 184 BC)

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Publius Claudius Pulcher (Latin: P•CLAVDIVS•APP•F•P•N•PVLCHER), was son of Appius Claudius Pulcher (consul 212 BC) and brother of Appius Claudius Pulcher (consul 185 BC). In 189 BC he was curule aedile, and in 188 BC praetor.[1] He was elected to the consulship through the devices of his brother in 184 BC,[2] and in 181 BC he was one of the three commissioners appointed for planting a colony at Graviscae, a city in the coast of Etruria between Cosa and Castrum Novum.[3]

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  1. ^ Livy, xxxviii. 35.
  2. ^ Livy, xxxix. 32.
  3. ^ Livy, xl. 29.

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This entry incorporates public domain text originally from:

  • William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870.


Preceded by:
Appius Claudius Pulcher and Marcus Sempronius Tuditanus		 Consul of the Roman Republic
with Lucius Porcius Licinus
184 BC		 Succeeded by:
Quintus Fabius Labeo and Marcus Claudius Marcellus
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