Marcus Claudius Marcellus (consul 196 BC)

Marcus Claudius Marcellus (consul 196 BC)

Marcus Claudius Marcellus was a consul (196 BC) and a censor in (189 BC) of the Roman Republic. He was the son of the famous general Marcus Claudius Marcellus (killed 208 BC), and possibly father of the three-time consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus (consul 166 BC).

Marcellus first appears in Livy's history when his father, then curule aedile, brought an action before the senate against his colleague Scantinius Capitolinus who had made improper advances to the young and beautiful boy. The younger Marcellus, despite his evident embarrassment, convinced the senate of the man's guilt and his father was recompensed with some articles of silver which he dedicated to a temple. Marcellus would have been at least seven, and probably over 13 at the time of the incident (ca. 226 BC). The relation of this case to the Lex Scantinia is vexed, since a Roman law was named after its proposer, and never a defendant.[1]

Like his coevals, Marcellus fought in the Second Punic War, probably accompanying his father on various military campaigns, including the famous campaign against Syracuse. He was military tribune under his father, when the two consuls were ambushed in 208 BC resulting in his father's death and the other consul's severe injury. Marcellus himself was badly wounded; his father's body was subsequently returned by Hannibal to the son.

In 204 BD Marcellus was a tribune of the plebs, appointed to lead a commission (also including Cato) to investigate charges made against Scipio Africanus. The charges were dismissed, and it is unclear what relationship, if any, existed between the two men. (Marcellus's father and Scipio's uncle had been co-consuls in 222 BC).

References

  1. ^ Elaine Fantham, "Stuprum: Public Attitudes and Penalties for Sexual Offences in Republican Rome," in Roman Readings: Roman Response to Greek Literature from Plautus to Statius and Quintilian (Walter de Gruyter, 2011), pp. 137–138; Eva Cantarella, Bisexuality in the Ancient World (Yale University Press, 1992), pp. 110–111.
Preceded by
Gaius Cornelius Cethegus and Quintus Minucius Rufus
Consul of the Roman Republic
with Lucius Furius Purpureo
196 BC
Succeeded by
Lucius Valerius Flaccus and Marcus Porcius M.f. Cato
Preceded by
P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus
and
Publius Aelius Paetus
Censor of the Roman Republic
with Titus Quinctius Flamininus
189 BC
Succeeded by
Lucius Valerius Flaccus
and
Marcus Porcius Cato

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 



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