Both his brother Marcus and cousin Gaius (Minor) had strongly opposed Caesar during their own consulships, working to have his proconsulship of Gaul terminated and to prevent Caesar from standing for election as consul of 48 BC in absentia. In 50 BC Marcellus was elected consul for the following year alongside Lentulus Crus, as opponents to Caesar. Marcellus must have held the praetorship at the latest in 52 BC, but he could have held the office some years before – there is no mention of this in the historical record.
Nothing is known of his earlier life, any military service, or his quaestorship and entry to the Senate, although he may have been the candidate in opposition to Clodius for the curule aedileship of 56 BC of whom, on 23 November, Cicero wrote "The candidate Marcellus is snoring so loud that I can hear him next door" (although the other two contemporary Claudii Marcelli are also possibilities). Claudius Marcellus – was five times consul and fought against Hannibal in Italy. Claudius Marcellus who was three times consul, and whose own grandfather – also a M. Claudius Marcellus, curule aedile of 91 his great-grandfather was M. Gaius Marcellus was born sometime before 91 BC. Following a century without the family reaching the consulship, three Claudii Marcelli were Consuls in succession: in 51 BC Marcus Claudius Marcellus (the brother of Gaius Marcellus) in 50 BC Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor (their cousin) and in 49 BC Gaius Marcellus himself. The Claudii Marcelli were a plebeian family, members of the nobiles with a long history of consulships throughout the history of the Republic.
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