Talk:Marcellus (nephew of Augustus)

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Death of Marcellus

Whether Livia did it or not in irrelevant, but due to the number of historians claiming that members of the family felt threatened by Marcellus, I can't help but think that someone must have rubbed him off for that reason. --80.193.19.191 22:02, 2 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

--- It was roughly on this topic that I meant to comment: the sentence about Tiberius and Agrippa feeling threatened by Marcellus will need to be changed and mention of which specific historians added, since there's nothing at all about that in Tacitus. The extent of Tacitus' reference to Marcellus in relation to the succesion is in Annales 1.3:

Ceterum Augustus subsidia dominationi Claudium Marcellum sororis filium admodum adulescentem pontificatu et curuli aedilitate, M. Agrippam ignobilem loco, bonum militia et victoriae socium, geminatis consulatibus extulit, mox defuncto Marcello generum sumpsit... (text from thelatinlibrary.com)

Augustus meanwhile, as supports to his despotism, raised to the pontificate and curule ædileship Claudius Marcellus, his sister's son, while a mere stripling, and Marcus Agrippa, of humble birth, a good soldier, and one who had shared his victory, to two consecutive consulships, and as Marcellus soon afterwards died, he also accepted him as his son-in-law. (translation by Church and Brodribb, in the public domain and available in various places online)

--Frippo 20:27, 6 February 2007 (UTC) ---[reply]