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Marcus Popillius Laenas (consul 359 BC)

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Marcus Popillius Laenas was a four-time consul of the Roman Republic. In the year (according to Varro) 359 BC, he defeated a Gallic army.

Near the end of his consulship with Gnaeus Manlius Capitolinus Imperiosus, the Tarquinians invaded the Roman territories on the Etruscan border, if this Gallic war took place 30 years after the occupation of Rome by the Gauls (in 386/5 BC).[1] Dio Cassius apparently identifies this war with the one in Camillus's fifth dictatorship when the election of the consuls was resumed. Those events took place in 364 BC, about a decade earlier, according to Livy.[2]

He is named by Cicero as flamen Carmentalis, the flamen of Carmenta, in 359 BC.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Livy VII, 12; Polybius (II, 18.1 - 20.7)
  2. ^ Livy VI, 42.
  3. ^ Cicero, Brutus 56.
Political offices
Preceded by Roman consul
359 BC
with Gnaeus Manlius Capitolinus Imperiosus
Succeeded by
Preceded by Roman consul II
356 BC
with Marcus Fabius Ambustus
Succeeded by
Preceded by Roman consul III
350 BC
with Lucius Cornelius Scipio
Succeeded by
Preceded by Roman consul IV
348 BC
with Marcus Valerius Corvus
Succeeded by