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4 unusual facts about Publius Clodius Pulcher


Brogitarus

Cicero claims that Brogitarus obtained his elevation to the kingship of Galatia alongside Deiotarus by bribing P. Clodius Pulcher, who was then tribune of the plebs at Rome.

Publius Clodius Pulcher

Out of personal hatred for the Lagid king Ptolemy of Cyprus, younger brother of Pharaoh Ptolemy XII Auletes, he passed a bill terminating his kingship and annexing Cyprus to the Empire.

The pirates sought a good ransom price from Ptolemy of Cyprus, a nominal ally of Rome who was then involved in negotiations for a potential marriage to a daughter of Mithradates VI of Pontus.

William Arnall

Besides his writing for Walpole, Arnall also published a number of pamphlets on political and ecclesiastical themes, including Publius Clodius Pulcher and Cicero (1727), One of his tracts, in which he disputes certain claims of the clergy in regard to tithes Animadversions on Bishop Sherlock's Remarks on the Tythe Bill, is reprinted in The Pillars of Priestcraft and Orthodoxy Shaken (2nd edn, 1768).



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