Marcus Popillius Laenas
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]
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| Preceded by Marcus Fabius Ambustus and Gaius Poetelius Libo Visolus |
Consul of the Roman Republic with Gnaeus Manlius Capitolinus Imperiosus 359 BC |
Succeeded by Gaius Fabius Ambustus and Gaius Plautius Proculus |
| Preceded by Gaius Marcius Rutilus and Gnaeus Manlius Capitolinus Imperiosus |
Consul of the Roman Republic with Marcus Fabius Ambustus 356 BC |
Succeeded by Gaius Sulpicius Peticus and Marcus Valerius Poplicola |
| Preceded by Gaius Sulpicius Peticus and Titus Quinctius Poenus Capitolinus Crispinus |
Consul of the Roman Republic with Lucius Cornelius Scipio 350 BC |
Succeeded by Lucius Furius Camillus and Appius Claudius Crassus Inregillensis |
| Preceded by Lucius Furius Camillus and Appius Claudius Crassus Inregillensis |
Consul of the Roman Republic with Marcus Valerius Corvus 348 BC |
Succeeded by Gaius Plautius Vennox Hypsaeo and Titus Manlius Imperiosus Torquatus |
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