Gaius Nautius Rutilus

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Gaius Nautius Rutilus was a Roman general and politician of the early Roman Republic .

He came from a patrician family whose origins are unknown, but which were of some importance in the early republic and from 488 BC. BC to 287 BC BC appears in the Fasti and during this time provided several consuls and consular tribunes . He was the son of Spurius Nautius Rutilius , consul in 488 BC. BC, and grandson of another Spurius.

In 475 BC He was elected consul of the Roman Republic for the first time. At that time Rome, allied with the Latins , waged war against Veii . While his counterpart Publius Valerius Poplicola led the Roman contingent against Veji, Nautius Rutilus and his troops secured the Roman territory. When the Aequer and Volscians, allied with Veji, invaded the territory of the Latins, Nautius did nothing to repel them at first, but then marched into the land of the Volscians to support the Latins. In 458 BC He was re-elected consul, first with an unknown Carventus as a colleague, then with Lucius Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus as a suffect consul . In the same year he appointed Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus the Dictator .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Georg Gundel : Nautius. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 4, Stuttgart 1972, Col. 18 f.
  2. ^ Friedrich Münzer : Nautius 5. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen antiquity science (RE). Volume XVI, 2, Stuttgart 1935, Col. 2050 f.
  3. ^ T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates of the Roman Republic. Volume 1: 609 BC-100 BC Americal Philological Association, New York 1951, pp. 27 f .; 39.
  4. ↑ Titus Livius , Ab urbe condita 3,26,6.
personal data
SURNAME Nautius rutilus, Gaius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman general and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC Chr.