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'''Marcellus''' Marcus Claudius (268?-208 B.C.) was five times consul of the Romans, a general to fight the Gauls in which he was the third (and last) Roman general to take and dedicate to Jupiter Feretrius the ''spolia opima'', the kind of spoils said to be those "which the general first takes in set battle, and takes from the enemy's chief captain whom he has slain with his own hand," according to [[Plutarch]] [Dryden translation].
'''Marcellus''' Marcus Claudius (268?-208 B.C.) was five times consul of the Romans, a general to fight the Gauls in which he was the third (and last) Roman general to take and dedicate to Jupiter Feretrius the ''spolia opima'', the kind of spoils said to be those "which the general first takes in set battle, and takes from the enemy's chief captain whom he has slain with his own hand," according to [[Plutarch]] [Dryden translation].
[[Category:Roman Generals]]
[[Category:Roman Commanders]]