Claudius Marcellus

Also known as: Marcellus · Family: Roman · Role: general · First appears: Fabius

Life events

Marius and Marcellus routed the Teutones and Ambrones after attacking them from front and rear.(Caius Marius · 📍 Sextilius's Waters)
- With: Caius Marius
- “Of this occasion Marius made good use; for there were beyond the enemies some wooded ascents and deep valleys thickly set with trees, whither he sent Claudius Marcellus, secretly, with three thousand regular soldiers, giving him orders to post them in ambush there, and show themselves at the rear of the enemies, when the fight was begun.”

enemies with Hannibal “So that Hannibal found by experience that, encountering the one, he met with a rapid, impetuous river, which drove him back, and still made some breach upon him”
with Fabius Maximus (interaction) “The most distinguished commands were held by Fabius Maximus and Claudius Marcellus, both generals of great fame, though upon opposite grounds.”

with Caius Marius (interaction) “whither he sent Claudius Marcellus, secretly, with three thousand regular soldiers, giving him orders to post them in ambush there”

Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.