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Marcus Atilius Regulus (fl. 267 – 255 BC) was a Roman statesman and general who was a consul of the Roman Republic in 267 BC and 256 BC. Much of his career was spent fighting the Carthaginians during the first Punic War .
Marcus Atilius Regulus (fl. 227–214 BC) was a Roman politician and statesman. He was consul in 227 and 217 BC and later censor in 214 BC. He was the son of his homonymous father who was consul in 267 and 256 BC.
Regulus is an oil painting by English artist J. M. W. Turner, initially painted in 1828, and now in Tate Britain, London.It depicts the legend of Roman consul Marcus Atilius Regulus' death, in which he was captured by Carthaginian forces and eventually executed after being blinded by the Sun.
The Departure of Regulus is 1769 history painting by the Anglo-American artist Benjamin West. [1] It was one of a number of classical scenes painted by West alongside his better-known depictions of more recent history. The scene depicts the departure from Rome of Regulus a consul and general of the Roman Republic.
Marcus Aquilius Regulus was a Roman senator, and notorious delator or informer who was active during the reigns of Nero and Domitian. Regulus is one of the best known examples of this occupation, in the words of Steven Rutledge, due to "the vivid portrait we have of his life and career in Pliny , Tacitus , and Martial ."
Atilius was a younger son of the Roman hero Marcus Atilius Regulus, the consul captured during the First Punic War. His elder brother, Marcus Atilius Regulus, was Roman consul for the year 227 BC, together with Publius Valerius Flaccus, and consul suffectus for 217 replacing Gaius Flaminius and later censor. An uncle of the same name was also ...
Two other types of magistrates are listed during the period of the Republic. In the year 451 BC, a board of ten men, known as decemviri, or decemvirs, was appointed in place of the consuls in order to draw up the tables of Roman law, in a sense establishing the Roman constitution. According to tradition, a second college of decemvirs was ...
Regulus was left with 40 ships, 15,000 infantry and 500 cavalry to overwinter in Africa. [47] [48] [49] Regulus was an experienced military commander, having been consul in 267 BC, when he was awarded a triumph for his victory against the Salentini. [50] [note 3] His orders were to weaken the Carthaginian army pending reinforcement in the spring.