Publius Claudius Pulcher , Consul in -249, lost a battles naval in Sicily against the Carthaginians, in front of Drépane.
Adherbal, which ordered the enemy fleet, ran thoroughly several vessels of the Romans, took 93, and continued of them the others until near Lilybée.
One allotted the defeat of Claudius to the contempt which it had shown for the Augures; as it was announced to him, at the time of the action, that the crowned chickens did not eat: « That one throws them to the sea, says it, so that they drink, if they do not want to eat. »
The senate pointed out it and ordered to him to indicate a dictator. By contempts it indicated one of its freed, Marcus Claudius Glicia, and was condemned for this fact.
He was the father of Appius Claudius Pulcher, consul in -212.
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