Claudius
36. C. Claudius Pulcher, son of No. 29, when curule aedile excluded slaves from the Megalesian games which he celebrated. (Cic. de Har. Resp. 12.) In B. C. 73 he was praetor (Plut. Crass. 9), and commanded an army against Spartacus, by whom he was defeated at mount Vesuvius. (Liv. Epit. 95; Oros. 5.24.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.