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 95 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]
He may have been the father of the Appius Claudius Pulcher (military tribune in the year 87 BC) and Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus[7], who was adopted into the gens Livia by the reformer Marcus Livius Drusus. If he indeed is the father of Claudianus, he may have been married to a Livia[8], as adoption usually occurred between close relatives.[9]
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Claudius (32)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. pp. 769–70.
