Legatus (Ambassador)
174
Aetolia
(Broughton MRR I)
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Since Memmius occupies a praetorian place in the list of names, this embassy has been used to support the view that he was Praetor in 175 and Praetor iterum in 172 (Liv. 42.9.8). The word iterum however refers to Cn. Sicinius, Pr. 183, and 172. Moreover, this list is in disorder since Claudius, the senior consular, is placed second, and, regardless of the date of Memmius' praetorship, Popillius Laenas (Pr. 176), who follows him, is his senior (Münzer, APF 218; cf. Maxis, Praetoren 51, 56; and see 172, note 1). (Broughton MRR I)
Sent to Aetolia to compose serious factional strife there and reported their inability to do so (Liv. 41.25.5-6, and 27.4). See 173, Legates; and on Valerius, Münzer, Gent. Val. 47, no. 36; on Popillius, Münzer, APF 216ff. (Broughton MRR I)
Legatus (Ambassador)
173
Aetolia
(Broughton MRR I)
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M. is a probable restoration. The activities recorded favor the view that the Envoy was a consular and one or other of the two mutually indistinguishable Marcelli of this period, not no. 225, the Consul of 166, 155, and 152. (Broughton MRR I)
Early in 173 these reported the increase in factional strife in Aetolia (Liv. 42.2.1-2). (Broughton MRR I)