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Appius Claudius Pulcher ( Latin: ) was a Roman politician of the 2nd century BC.
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His censorship seems to have been based on those of his ancestors, particularly Appius Claudius Caecus, and he used the office to put into place many policies based on those of Republican times.
For example, he believed ( as most Romans ) that his ancestor Appius Claudius Caecus had used the censorship to introduce the letter " R " and so used his own term to introduce his new letters.
A deadlocked senate put the matter before the popular assembly, where it was decided to accept the Mamertines ' request and Appius Claudius Caudex was appointed commander of a military expedition with orders to cross to Messana.
Two legions commanded by Appius Claudius Caudex disembarked at Messana, where the Mamertines had expelled the Carthaginian garrison commanded by Hanno ( no relation to Hanno the Great ).
" According to some records, the original seventh letter, ⟨ z ⟩, had been purged from the Latin alphabet somewhat earlier in the 3rd century BC by the Roman censor Appius Claudius, who found it distasteful and foreign.
He created the parts of Appius Claudius in Sheridan Knowles's Virginius ( 1820 ) and of Modus in his Hunchback ( 1832 ).
* The Roman consul Appius Claudius Caudex and his two legions are deployed to Sicily, the first time a Roman army has gone into action outside the Italian peninsula.
* Appius Claudius Caudex leads his forces to Messina, and as the Mamertines have convinced the Carthaginians to withdraw, he meets with only minimal resistance.
The Mamertines hand the city over to Appius Claudius, but the Carthaginians return to set up a blockade.
* Appius Claudius leads his troops outside the city of Messina to defeat the Syracusans in battle forcing Hiero to retreat back to Syracuse.
Her husband, Pompeianus, was not involved, but two men alleged to have been her lovers, Marcus Ummidius Quadratus Annianus ( the consul of 167, who was also her first cousin ) and Appius Claudius Quintianus, attempted to murder Commodus as he entered the theatre.
The road is named after Appius Claudius Caecus, the Roman censor who began and completed the first section as a military road to the south in 312 BC during the Samnite Wars.
Without waiting to be told what to do by the Senate, Appius Claudius began bold public works to address the supply problem.
It is no surprise that, after his term as censor, Appius Claudius became consul twice, subsequently held other offices, and was a respected consultant to the state even during his later years.
Appius Claudius died in 273, but in extending the road a number of times, no one has tried to displace his name upon it.
Appius and Pulcher
Messalina's father was the son of Marcus Valerius Messala Barbatus Appianus, a Claudius Pulcher by birth ( son of Appius Claudius Pulcher, consul 38 BC ) adopted by Marcus Valerius Messala, cos. suff.
* With concerns rising in Rome over whether Philip V of Macedon is preparing for a new war with the Romans, Appius Claudius Pulcher is sent at the head of an embassy into Macedonia and Greece to observe Philip's activities.
* The Roman consuls, Appius Claudius Pulcher and Quintus Fulvius Flaccus, besiege Capua with eight legions.
In this case, he derived this surname from the name of Appius Claudius Pulcher, whom he intended to flatter.
Born Appius Claudius Pulcher, a member of the Claudii descended from Appius Claudius Caecus, he was received into the house of the tribune as an infant and was brought up along with the tribune's nieces and nephews by the tribune's wife, Servilia, sister of Livia Drusa's first husband.
In 50 BC, the censor Appius Claudius Pulcher removed him from the Senate on the grounds of gross immorality ( probably really because of his opposition to Milo and Cicero ).
Clodia, ( born Claudia Pulchra Prima or Maior or also Quadrantaria c. 95 BC or c. 94 BC and often referred to in scholarship as Clodia Metelli (" Clodia the wife of Metellus "), was the third daughter of the patrician Appius Claudius Pulcher and Caecilia Metella Balearica.
* Marcus Livius Drusus Claudianus, born Appius Claudius Pulcher, but changed it later after his adoption by Marcus Livius Drusus
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