Gaius Aquillius Florus

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Gaius Aquillius Florus served as Consul to the Roman Republic in the year 259 BC, together with Lucius Cornelius Scipio. He monitored the movements of the Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca in Sicily during the time Rome was fighting the First Punic War.[1]

References [edit]

  1. ^ Smith, William (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. p. 177. 
Political offices
Preceded by
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina and Gaius Duilius
Consul of the Roman Republic
with Lucius Cornelius Scipio
259 BC
Succeeded by
Aulus Atilius Calatinus and Gaius Sulpicius Paterculus