Tiberius Claudius Nero (consul)

Tiberius Claudius Nero was a patrician family of the Claudian entstamme politician of the Roman Republic. In the year 202 BC, he served as consul.

Life

Tiberius Claudius Nero was the son of Publius Claudius Nero, Tiberius Claudius Nero grandson of the same name, the great-grandson of the censor of 312 BC, Appius Claudius Caecus, and cousin of the consul of 207 BC, Gaius Claudius Nero. The first known office of his cursus honorum is the praetorship, he 204 BC, in the late phase of the Second Punic War, held. In this role, he stood with a legion in his province Sardinia and sent from there grain for the soldiers of Publius Cornelius Scipio in North Africa.

202 Tiberius Claudius Nero BC reached the peak of his career, by Consul was this year jointly with Marcus Servilius Geminus Pulex. He received the province of Africa, and there should translate with 50 ships to exercise together with Publius Cornelius Scipio the supreme command against Hannibal. But he had a lot of time with the necessary armor, came with his fleet soon after the departure in a violent storm and landed in Populonia, where he waited for the abatement of the storm. He then sailed over Elba and Corsica to Sardinia, but where a new raging hurricane. His ships suffered heavy damage and Claudius Nero finally put in Caralis (modern Cagliari). He had to repair his ships, but now the season was so far advanced that the winter was approaching. Thus, the decisive battle of Zama took place without the participation of Claudius Nero. Since he did not extend his empire, he had to bring back its fleet as a private citizen to Rome.

About the later life of Tiberius Claudius Nero is no tradition, unless it is identified with the same envoys of 172 BC, who visited on this mission, inter alia, Asia Minor and Rhodes.