Later Years
In 47 BC he was able to intercede with Caesar for his cousin and namesake Gaius Claudius Marcellus Maior, also a former consul (49 BC), then living in exile. He died in May 40 BC. Five months later, his wife Octavia married Mark Antony. The Roman general Publius Quinctilius Varus and his two sisters were grandchildren from his first marriage.
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