Gaius Aquillius Florus

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Gaius Aquillius Florus was a Roman politician during the First Punic War .

Aquillius arrived as homo novus in 259 BC. Together with Lucius Cornelius Scipio to the consulate . He operated successfully in Sicily , where he prevented the Carthaginian general Hamilcar , who had Drepanon converted into a fortress, from reclaiming the island completely. In the following year he stayed in the theater of war with a prorogated empire and finally celebrated a triumph . Nothing is known about his further life and possible descendants.

Members of the plebeian gens Aquillia emerge only sporadically , whose association cannot be determined due to their different cognomina . In the last third of the 2nd century BC Then several members of the gens appear without cognomen and carry the praenomen Manius . Two Aquilii Flori committed suicide after the Battle of Actium . A praetor from the Augustan era by the name of Lucius Aquilius Florus Turcianus Gallus will be regarded as their descendant . It cannot be ascertained whether these were still in gentilian connection with the consul of 259, but it can be assumed.

literature

  • T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC - 100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 1, ZDB -ID 418575-4 ). American Philological Association, New York NY 1951, p. 206, (Unchanged reprint 1968).

Remarks

  1. ↑ Consular fasting : C. Aquillius M. f. C. n. Florus . Two earlier patrician namesake are perhaps annalistic forgeries.
  2. ↑ Diodorus 23: 9, 2-4.
  3. ↑ Zonaras 8:11.
  4. ^ On the various namesake Rudolf Hanslik , Aquilius . In: Der Kleine Pauly 1 (1964) Sp. 479f.
  5. ↑ Cassius Dio 51,2,5.
personal data
SURNAME Aquillius Florus, Gaius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Florus, Gaius Aquillius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 259 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH before 259 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 3rd century BC BC or 2nd century BC Chr.