Lucius Papirius Cursor (Consul 293 BC)
Lucius Papirius Cursor was a general and politician of the Roman Republic .
Papirius was born in 293 BC. BC Consul and fought victoriously against the Samnites . In his second consulate (272 BC) the submission of Samnium was completed. He celebrated a particularly brilliant triumph over the Tarentines , Samnites, Lucanians and Bruttians . He had Rome's first sundial set up in the Temple of Quirinus .
His father was the general, multiple consul and dictator Lucius Papirius Cursor (consul 326 BC) .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Livy X 39.1
- ^ T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 1: 509 BC - 100 BC Cleveland, Ohio: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1951. Reprinted unchanged 1968. (Philological Monographs. Ed. Of the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, Part 1), pp. 197f; to the consulate 293 BC Chr. See p. 180f
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- Titus Livius: Roman History, Book VII – X. Fragments of the Second Decade , ed. v. Hans Jürgen Hillen, Darmstadt 1994.
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SURNAME | Papirius Cursor, Lucius |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cursor, Lucius Papirius |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman statesman and general |
DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century BC Chr. |
DATE OF DEATH | 3rd century BC Chr. |