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Marcus Claudius Marcellus, was a member of the plebeian gens ''Claudia'' of the branch cognomitated ''Marcellus'' and a Roman politician. Marcellus was elected curule aedile in 56 BC. In 52 BC he was elected consul, together with Servius Sulpicius Rufus, for the following year. During his consulship Marcellus proved himself to be a zealous partisan of Pompey and the ''optimates'', and urged the Senate to extreme measures against Julius Caesar, managing to establish that the subject of recalling Caesar should be discussed on 1 March of the following year. He also considered the Lex Vitinia invalid, removing Roman citizenship from citizens of Comum, and caused a senator of Comum, who happened to be in Rome, to be scourged, a punishment Roman citizens were exempted from under the Lex Porcia.〔Hardy, Ernest G. (1924). ''Some Problems in Roman History'': 143-4.〕 Upon the start of the civil war, Marcellus fled Rome with the ''optimates'' and joined the Republican Grand Army in Epirus. After the Battle of Pharsalus, Marcellus abandoned opposition to Caesar, and withdrew in an honorable exile to Mytilene, where he was left unmolested by Caesar. His cousin Gaius Claudius Marcellus petitioned the dictator for clemency, as did Cicero in his ''Pro Marcello''. This was granted near the close of 46 BC, though Marcellus did not start out for Rome until the middle of 45 BC.〔Abbott, Frank F. (1909). ''Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero''. (4.12 )〕 En route near Athens he was murdered by one of his own attendants, P. Magius Chilo,〔Marcus Tullius Cicero, ''Epistulae ad Familiares'', (iv. 12. )〕 an event that some attributed to Caesar, but Cicero suggested was almost certainly caused by a dispute between Magius and Marcellus.〔〔Marcus Tullius Cicero, ''Epistulae ad Atticum'',(13.10. )〕 Marcellus was the son of another Marcus Claudius Marcellus, ''aedile curulis'' in 91 BC; the brother of Gaius Claudius Marcellus Maior, consul in 49 BC and the cousin of Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor, consul in 50 BC. The character of Marcellus plays an important role in the episode "Caesar" of the BBC-series ''Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire''. == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marcus Claudius Marcellus (consul 51 BC)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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