Duilius

Duilius was the noun of a plebeian family of the Roman Republic who lived in the 3rd century BC. Chr. Died out.

An outstanding member of the family was Gaius Duilius , consul of the year 260 BC. BC, who was in command during his consulate in the First Punic War at the Battle of Mylae . By using new boarding bridges ( Corvus ) he achieved the first sea victory of the Romans over the Carthaginians .

The family's first consul was 336 BC. Chr. Kaeso Duilius, who in 334 BC BC co-founder of a Colonia in Cales , southern Italy .

literature

Hans Georg Gundel : Duilius. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, Col. 173 f.
Friedrich Münzer : Duilius . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 2, Stuttgart 1905, Col. 1776 f.

Individual evidence

↑ For a complete list of the members of the gens Duilia who held offices during the Roman Republic, see T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 2: 99 BC - 31 BC Case Western Reserve University Press, Cleveland, Ohio 1952. Reprinted unchanged 1968. (Philological Monographs. Ed. By the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, Part 2), pp. 560f.

[1] For a complete list of the members of the gens Duilia who held offices during the Roman Republic, see T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 2: 99 BC - 31 BC Case Western Reserve University Press, Cleveland, Ohio 1952. Reprinted unchanged 1968. (Philological Monographs. Ed. By the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, Part 2), pp. 560f.