Gaius Marcius Figulus (consul 162 BC)

Caius Marcius Figulus was a politician of the Roman Republic who served as praetor in 169 BC, Roman consul in 162 BC, and again as consul in 156 BC.[1][2] Upon being elected to the praetorship in 169 BC, Figulus received command of the Roman fleets by lot.[3] Later that year, he transported the consul, Quintus Marcius Philippus, to Ambracia so that he could assume command of Roman forces fighting the Third Macedonian War.[4] Figulus himself sailed on to Creusa, then crossed Boeotia by land in a single day to join the rest of the fleet at Chalcis.[4] The only other mention Livy makes of Figulus is a reference to his having assigned part of the fleet to winter quarters at Sciathus, and the remainder at Oreum, in Euboea, which he judged the best location to maintain supply lines to the army in Macedon.[5]

Figulus became consul for the first time in 162 BC, but he and his colleague Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum abdicated when something went wrong with the auspices.[6]

References
  1. Liv. 43.11.7.3 http://latin.packhum.org/loc/914/1/1662/1017-1024#1662
  2. Titus Livius Livy. The History of Rome (Books XXXVII-CXL). 43.11.
  3. Titus Livius Livy. The History of Rome (Books XXXVII-CXL). 43.15.
  4. Titus Livius Livy. The History of Rome (Books XXXVII-CXL). 44.1.
  5. Titus Livius Livy. The History of Rome (Books XXXVII-CXL). 44.13.
  6. Plutarch, Life of Marcellus, 5; T. R. Broughton, The magistrates of the Roman Republic, p. 442.
Preceded by
Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and
Marcus Juventius Thalna		 Consul of the Roman Republic
162 BC		 Succeeded by
Marcus Valerius Messalla and
Gaius Fannius Strabo
Preceded by
Sextus Julius Caesar and
Lucius Aurelius Orestes		 Consul of the Roman Republic
156 BC		 Succeeded by
Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum and
Marcus Claudius Marcellus
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