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Marcus Claudius Marcellus (?late C2nd to ?mid C1st BCE) was a politician and senator of the Roman Republic. He was the grandson of another Marcus Claudius Marcellus (cos. 166, 155 and 152 BCE) and the father of two later consuls: Marcus Claudius Marcellus (cos. 51 BCE), and Gaius Claudius Marcellus (cos. 49 BCE).

Marcellus is mentioned by Cicero in his work, de Oratore (On the Orator) written in the mid-fifties, in a dialogue set in 91 BCE, which identifies him as Curule Aedile] of that year, celebrating the [[Roman_games|Roman Games. There was no fixed age for holding the aedileship, but this was probably in his twenties.

He is probably the “M. Claudius M. f. Arnensis Marcellus” (Arnensis referencing his voting tribe) listed in the inscription of Oropos in Greece as a member of the consilium (Senate committee) which, in 73 BCE, judged against the claims of Rome's publicani to collect taxes in Oropos. In MRR II and MRR III Broughton asserts that Marcellus held the Praetorship prior to 74 BCE, probably many years before.

Marcellus was probably that M. Claudius Marcellus named in Cicero's published speech in Verrem as major patron in Sicily.

Ancient Authors

 * Cicero, de Natura Deorum
 * Cicero: de Oratore
 * Cicero, in Verrem

Category:Ancient Roman senators Marcellus, Marcus Category:1st-century BC Romans