Gaius Claudius Centho or Cento was a 3rd-century BC member of a prominent and wealthy patrician Roman Republican family. He was the third son of Appius Claudius Caecus, and a member of the Claudii. He was consul in the year 240 BC.[1] He was Roman censor in 225, interrex in 217, and Roman dictator in 213.[2][3]

Though little is known about his life,[2] Cicero mentions his consulship in his Tusculanae Disputationes,[4] and Livy mentions his service as interrex, after which Publius Cornelius Scipio Asina oversaw the election of Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro as consuls for 216 BC.[5] He was appointed dictator by the consul Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus in order to oversee the election of new consuls in 213 BC.[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ Grant, Michael; Cicero, Marcus Tullius (1993). On Government. New York: Penguin Books. p. 244. ISBN 0-14-044595-1. Appius Claudius Caecus Gaius Claudius.
  2. 1 2 George Converse Fiske (1902). "The Politics of the Patrician Claudii". Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. Harvard University Press. XIII: 42.
  3. ↑ Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Claudius 15" . Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
  4. ↑ Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 1.1
  5. ↑ Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, 22.34
  6. ↑ Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, 25.2
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