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Who was Publius Claudius Pulcher?

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Publius Claudius Pulcher, while consul (249 BC), attacked the Carthaginian fleet at Drepanum and was defeated. It was believed that he was defeated because he threw the sacred chickens, which refused to eat before the battle, into the sea.

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