Gaius Claudius Pulcher (consul 177 BC)

Gaius Claudius Pulcher (d. 167 BC), consul in 177 BC, was the son of Appius Claudius Pulcher consul in 212 BC, and he was the father of Gaius Claudius Pulcher. [Livy, "Ab Urbe Condita", [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12582/12582-h/12582-h.htm#g44 xxxiii.44;] William Smith, "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Myhtology", [http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0778.html i.769.] ]

Augur in 195 BC, praetor in 180 BC, during his consulate in 177 BC, he set out to fight against the Istrians, [Polybius, "Histories", [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0234%3Abook%3D25%3Achapter%3D4 xxv.4.] ] but failed to perform the proper ceremonies and was forced to return to Rome. [Livy, [http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/Livy/Livy41.html xli.10.] ] Setting out again, he defeated the Istrians and moved on to fight the Ligurians recovering the town of Mutina. [Livy, xli.10-18.]

In 169 BC he was elected censor with Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, his former co-consul. Their censorship was quite severe and as a result they were impeached. They were acquitted through Gracchus's popularity with the people. [Livy, [http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/Livy/Livy43.html xliii.14-16,] [http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/Livy/Livy45.html xlv.15;] Valerius Maximus, "Factorum et Dictorum Mermorabilium", [http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/valmax6.html vi.5.3.] ] Later, in 167 BC, he went as part of an embassy to Macedon. [Livy, xlv.17; Polybius, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0234%3Abook%3D30%3Achapter%3D13 xxx.13.] ] In that year, he died. [Livy, xlv.44.]

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