A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

47. APP. CLAUDIUS or CLODIUS PULCHER, brother of No. 46, joined his brother in prosecuting Milo. (B. C. 52.) Next year he exposed the intrigue through which his father had escaped [see No. 39], in hopes of getting back the bribe that had been paid to Servilius. But he managed the matter so clumsily, that Servilius escaped, and Appius, having abandoned a prosecution with which he had threatened Servilius, was himself not long after impeached for extortion by the Servilii,

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and for violence by Sex. Tettius. (Cic. Fam. 8.8.)