Gaius Nautius Rutilus (consul 287 BC)

Gaius Nautius Rutilus was a Roman statesman in the first quarter of the 3rd century BC. Chr.

His father was believed to be the consul of 316, Spurius Nautius Rutilus . He was elected consul with Marcus Claudius Marcellus in 287 . In the absence of sources, nothing is known about her year in office; the most important event was the lex hortensia , which marked the end of the class struggles .

No further information is known about Nautius; but he was the last from the patrician gens Nautia to reach the consulate. His son could have been that military tribune Nautius , who, according to Florus , is said to have refused to set sail with the consul Marcus Atilius Regulus against the Carthaginians . This disgraceful behavior may have meant the end of the family.

literature

Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton : The Magistrates of the Roman Republic . Vol. 1, New York 1951, p. 185.

Remarks

↑ Florus 1:18, 17.
↑ After Bruno Bleckmann , The Roman Nobility in the First Punic War. Investigations into aristocratic competition in the republic. Akademie Verlag , Berlin 2002, p. 180 Note 2, ISBN 3-05-003738-5 ( Klio Beih. NF 10), Nautius could have been a tribune of the people who intervened against the recruitment of Roman citizens for sea warfare.

personal data
SURNAME	Nautius rutilus, Gaius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rutilus, Gaius Nautius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman consul 287 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH	before 330 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	after 287 BC Chr.

[1] Florus 1:18, 17.

[2] After Bruno Bleckmann , The Roman Nobility in the First Punic War. Investigations into aristocratic competition in the republic. Akademie Verlag , Berlin 2002, p. 180 Note 2, ISBN 3-05-003738-5 ( Klio Beih. NF 10), Nautius could have been a tribune of the people who intervened against the recruitment of Roman citizens for sea warfare.