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Encyclopedia > 242 BC

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Catulus - Encyclopedia.com (627 words)
Caius Lutatius Catulus was consul in 242 BC He won the great Roman naval victory over Carthage off the Aegates (modern Aegadian Isles) that ended the First Punic War.
87 BC, was consul in 102 BC His colleague in the consulship was Marius, with whom he went north to oppose a Germanic invasion.
Catulus was censor in 65 BC He was the leader of the archconservative group.
Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Praetor (1129 words)
From 242 bc, two praetors were elected, serving a one-year term, usually followed by appointment as provincial governor.
152 BC, was a consul in 187 and 175 BC, a censor in 179 BC, and pontifex maximus [high priest] from 180 BC He served with distinction in the war with Antiochus III of Syria.
In 366 BC a third magistrate was introduced, the praetor urbanus, ‘city praetor’, who was not eponymous and who...
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