Quintus Mamilius Vitulus
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Quintus Mamilius Vitulus was a Roman politician of the third century BC. He was brother of Lucius Mamilius Vitulus, consul in 265 BC.
According to tradition, his family, plebeian, was a native of the princely family of Tusculum.
In 262 BC, during the third year of the First Punic War, he was elected consul. With his colleague Lucius Postumius Megellus, he besieged the Sicilian city of Agrigentum and won a victory over a Carthaginian mercenary army which had come to relieve the city.
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| Preceded by Manius Valerius Maximus Corvinus Messalla and Manius Otacilius Crassus |
Consul of the Roman Republic with Lucius Postumius Megellus 262 BC |
Succeeded by Lucius Valerius Flaccus and Tiberius Otacilius Crassus |
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