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Gaius Lutatius Catulus (fl. 242–241 BC) was a Roman statesman and naval commander in the First Punic War. [1] He was born a member of the plebeian gens Lutatius.
Gaius Lutatius Catulus (fl. 220–218 BC) was a Roman statesman and general, who held the executive office of consul in 220 BC as the colleague of Lucius Veturius Philo. During their term of office, the two men led an expedition to the Julian Alps and secured the submission of several local peoples without fighting them.
Gaius Lutatius, grandfather of the consuls of 242 and 241 BC. Gaius Lutatius C. f., father of the consuls. Gaius Lutatius C. f. C. n. Catulus, consul in 242 BC, he had command of the Roman fleet at the Battle of the Aegates, and defeated the Carthaginian fleet under Hanno II the Great, after which Carthage agreed to negotiate an end to the war.
Quintus Lutatius Catulus (149–87 BC) was a consul of the Roman Republic in 102 BC. His consular colleague was Gaius Marius . During their consulship the Cimbri and Teutones marched south again and threatened the Republic.
The new Roman fleet was completed in 242 BC and the consul Gaius Lutatius Catulus, assisted by the praetor Quintus Valerius Falto, led it to Sicily. Arriving with the 200 quinqueremes and 700 transports laden with supplies and legionary reinforcements, Catulus seized the harbour of Drepana and the anchorages off Lilybaeum uncontested, as there ...
The Treaty of Lutatius was the agreement between Carthage and Rome of 241 BC (amended in 237 BC), that ended the First Punic War after 23 years of conflict. Most of the fighting during the war took place on, or in the waters around, the island of Sicily and in 241 BC a Carthaginian fleet was defeated by a Roman fleet commanded by Gaius Lutatius Catulus while attempting to lift the blockade of ...
March 10 – Battle of the Aegates: The Carthaginian fleet sent to relieve the Roman blockade of the Sicilian cities of Lilybaeum and Drepanum is totally defeated near the Aegates Islands off western Sicily by the Roman fleet led by Roman consul and commander Gaius Lutatius Catulus.
Gaius Lutatius Catulus (consul 242 BC) M. Lucius Manlius Vulso Longus; O. Titus Otacilius Crassus; S. Gaius Sempronius Blaesus (consul 253 BC) Gnaeus Servilius Caepio ...