Publius Clodius Pulcher (c. 92 BC, slain December 53 BC,) was a Roman politician. A Roman nobilis of the patrician gens Claudia, and Senator of "bold and extreme" character, he became a major, though disruptive, force in Roman politics. He passed numerous laws in the tradition of the populares (the Leges Clodiae), but was hampered by tendencies to petulance and extreme violence, and by the negativity of his bitter personal feuding, which undermined his ability to muster a really large and authentic popular following.
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