Marcus Atilius Regulus Calenus

Marcus Atilius Regulus Calenus was a Roman politician around 330 BC. BC, who was the first of the Atilii Reguli in 335 BC. Became consul .

Members of the ramified gens Atilia allegedly entered the Senate as early as the 5th century ; Regulus cannot be directly related to them. He was elected consul with Marcus Valerius Corvus in 335 , but in the tradition of Livius he takes a back seat to his colleague. The Corvus managed to storm the city of Cales , for which he was awarded a triumph . Since the war against the Sidicins was not yet over, both consuls remained in the field, which is why a dictator , Lucius Aemilius Mamercinus Privernas, was used to hold the elections. The share of Regulus in the conquest of Cales cannot have been so small, however, since he derived his agnomen Calenus from it.

Then it disappears from tradition; his son Marcus Atilius Regulus came to the consulate in 294.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Livy VIII 16.5; Diodor XVII 40.1; T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC - 100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 1). American Philological Association, New York NY 1951, p. 139, (Reprinted unchanged 1968).
2. ↑ Livy 8: 16,4-12.

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 ). Case Western Reserve University Press, Cleveland OH 1951, pp. 139 f., (Unchanged reprint 1968).