Appius Claudius Pulcher (consul 54 BC)

Appius Claudius Pulcher (c. 97 BC, † 48 BC in Euboea ) was a politician of the late Roman Republic, son of the consul of 79 BC and the same of Cecilia Metella and brother of Publius Clodius Pulcher.

Appius Claudius Pulcher was 72-70 BC military tribune in the East under Lucullus. Lucullus sent him to the Armenian king Tigranes II, so that Mithridates VI. move from Pontus to the task. 57 BC he was praetor 56 BC propraetor of Sardinia, consul 54 BC, 53-51 BC, proconsul of Cilicia in Asia Minor and 50 BC, censor. Unlike his brother, who so changed the spelling of the name, as the underlayer pronounced him, Appius Claudius Pulcher supported the Optimates and graduated as a censor the writer Sallust, a supporter of Gaius Julius Caesar and the Populares, of the Senate from. In the same year he was accused of bribing Publius Cornelius Dolabella, but acquitted with the help of Pompey, Cicero and Hortensius '. He supported Pompey against Caesar and was used by that as governor Achaeas. He left there, the lower Propylaea at Eleusis build and died before the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC in Euboea.

Since at least 63 BC Claudius Pulcher was a member of the college of augurs.

His daughter was married to the later Caesar's assassins Marcus Junius Brutus, with whom she had four children. 45 BC did this but divorced her to marry his cousin Porcia. Another daughter was married to Pompey's son Gnaeus Pompey.

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