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103) Ap. Claudius Centho

He was the son of a Gaius (nr. 105), he was aedile curulis in 575 = 179 (Liv. XL 59, 6) and praetor 579 = 175. He went to Spain, and in this year or the beginning of the next he conquered the Celtiberians in a large decisive battle (Liv. XLI 26, 1-5. 28, 1; cf. Weissenborn's comments) and received an ovatio as thanks (Acta tr. Liv. XLI 28, 3). <30> In 581 = 173, he managed affairs in Thessaly as a legate (Liv. XLII 5, 8-10); the idea that he was also active in Macedonia at the time (ibid. 25, 1) is an invention of the annalists (Nissen Krit. Unters. 247). In the year 584 = 170, he was sent to Illyria as a legate. Livy's account (XLIII 9, 6f. 10, 1-8. 11, 11) about his unsuccessful undertaking against the city of Uskana should be completely rejected, according to Nissen (loc. cit. 60f.), in preference to the accounts that stem from Polybius: <40> in order to make up for L. Coelius's defeat at Uskana, Claudius attacked the citadel Phanote in Epirus with his own troops as well as those from Epirus (Liv. XLIII 21, 4f.), but when he wanted to call it a day and leave unsuccessful, he was attacked by the occupying troops (ibid. 23, 1-3), and lead his army back to Illyria after dismissing the foreign contingents (ibid. 23, 6). He stopped there throughout the following year, and asked the Achaeans to bring help (Polyb. XXVIII 13, 7ff.), <50> and in winter he asked for more reinforcements again (Liv. XLIV 20, 5). At the beginning of 586 = 168, when he was intending to move in battle against Genthios, he was replaced (ibid. 21, 4. 30, 10f.).

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