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    Marcus Claudius Marcellus (/mɑːrˈsɛləs/; c. 270 – 208 BC) was a Roman general and politician during the 3rd century BC. Five times elected as consul of...
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    Marcus Claudius Marcellus (42–23 BC) was the eldest son of Gaius Claudius Marcellus and Octavia Minor, sister of Augustus (then known as Octavian). He...
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    but died that autumn. Marcus Claudius M. f. M. n. Marcellus Aeserninus, consul in 22 BC, possibly the same as the Marcellus who served under Lepidus during...
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  • Claudius Marcellus can refer to: Gaius Claudius Marcellus (praetor 80 BC), Roman governor of Sicily Gaius Claudius Marcellus, son of Marcus Claudius Marcellus...
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    Gaius Claudius Marcellus (88 BC – May 40 BC) was a Roman senator who served as Consul in 50 BC. He was a friend to Roman senator Cicero and an early opponent...
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    Marcus Claudius Marcellus. All three were born in Italy. However, according to the anonymous Περὶ τοῦ καισαρείου γένους Octavia bore Marcellus four sons...
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    was probably named after Marcus Claudius Marcellus, a Roman general, by a clerk interested in the Classics. The Marcellus Formation is a vast geological...
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  • Look up Marcellus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Marcellus may refer to: Marcellus (name) Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Roman commander Marcellus of Tangier...
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  • Marcus Claudius Marcellus (consul 331 BC) Marcus Claudius Marcellus (consul 196 BC) Marcus Claudius Marcellus (consul 183 BC) Marcus Claudius Marcellus (consul...
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  • I, Claudius (stylised as I·CLAVDIVS) is a 1976 BBC Television adaptation of Robert Graves' 1934 novel I, Claudius and its 1935 sequel Claudius the God...
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    firm. Marcus Claudius Marcellus had ordered that Archimedes, the well-known mathematician – and possibly equally well-known to Marcellus as the inventor...
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    daughter of his sister Octavia the Younger and her first husband Gaius Claudius Marcellus. She became the second wife of Augustus' foremost general Marcus Vipsanius...
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  • Marcus Claudius Marcellus (the brother of Gaius Marcellus); in 50 BC Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor (their cousin); and in 49 BC Gaius Marcellus himself...
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    repelled by Marcellus, who was now proconsul. When Hannibal returned for a third year, Marcellus again prepared to defend the city. He sent Claudius out under...
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  • Marcus Claudius Marcellus (killed 208 BC), and possibly father of the three-time consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus (consul 166 BC). Marcellus first appears...
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    bestowed the honorific title, "The Shield of Rome" (similar to Marcus Claudius Marcellus being named the "Sword of Rome"). According to Ennius, unus homo nobis...
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  • Marcus Claudius Marcellus Aeserninus is a name used by several men of the gens Claudia, including: Marcus Claudius Marcellus Aeserninus is mentioned by...
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    Marcus Claudius Marcellus (c. 95 BC – 45 BC) was a Roman politician who was elected consul in 51 BC. Marcellus was the son of another Marcus Claudius Marcellus...
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    was with Livia, a Claudia who had been married to a Claudius. Their son Tiberius, by birth a Claudius, was later adopted by Augustus, thus, like his stepfather...
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  • Marcus Claudius Marcellus (cos. 166, 155 and 152 BC) and the father of two later consuls: Marcus Claudius Marcellus (cos. 51 BC), and Gaius Claudius Marcellus...
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  • Shakespeare's tragic play Hamlet Marcus Claudius Marcellus (42–23 B.C.), nephew of Augustus Marcus Claudius Marcellus (fl. 3rd century B.C.), Roman consul...
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    Marcus Claudius Marcellus (died c. 148 BC) was Roman consul for the years 166 BC (together with Gaius Sulpicius Gallus), for 155 BC (with Publius Cornelius...
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  • Marcus Claudius Marcellus was consul in 331 BC with Gaius Valerius Potitus. His son, also named Marcus Claudius Marcellus, was consul in 287 BC. In 327...
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    married his only child—a daughter—Julia to his nephew Marcus Claudius Marcellus. Marcellus, however, died of food poisoning in 23 BC. Augustus then married...
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    the five time consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus, who commanded the operations against Hannibal in Southern Italy. Marcellus died in a Carthaginian ambush...
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    Claudius Marcellus (homonymous cousin of the consul of 50 BC) and Crus, who quickly defected from Caesar's cause. As consul Gaius Claudius Marcellus started...
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    Heracleides of Tarentum and was first used unsuccessfully by Marcus Claudius Marcellus during the Roman siege of Syracuse in 213 BC. Polybius describes usage...
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    was fought in 222 BC between a Roman army led by the consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus and the Insubres, a Celtic people in northern Italy. Florus writes...
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  • chance Marcellus was a grandson of Asinia and Marcus Claudius Marcellus. Marcellus was a Senator active in the reigns of the emperors Claudius and Nero...
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    and of the old Roman inflexible integrity and love of order. Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Scipio Africanus and his family, and Titus Quinctius Flamininus may...
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