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Gaius Claudius Pulcher (consul 177 BCE)

d. 167 BCE · 2nd century BCE

Gaius Claudius Pulcher was a Roman politician and general who served as consul in 177 BCE. In that year he completed the conquest of the Histri in Istria, storming their stronghold of Nesactium, after which the Histrian king Epulo took his own life, and he then campaigned against the Ligurians. He was censor in 169 BCE with Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus.

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