Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

POET0593 M. Poetelius (6) M. f. M. n. Libo

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Relationships

great grandson of

Q. Poetelius (4) Libo Visolus (X vir consul. imp. leg. scrib. 450) (RE)

son of

M. Poetelius (B) (father of M. Poetelius (6) M. f. M. n. Libo (cos. 314)) (RE)

father of

C. Poetelius (2) (son of M. Poetelius (6) M. f. M. n. Libo (cos. 314)) (RE)

Career

• Consul 314 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • Liv. 9.24.1; Diod. 19.73.1; Fast. Cap. (names entire); Chr. 354 (Libone et Longo III); Fast. Hyd. (Saminte et Longo); Chr. Pasc. ({Gr}); Cassiod.; Degrassi 36f., 110, 418f. The Consuls captured Sora and the Ausonian towns, and defeated a Samnite force in Campania (Liv. 9.24-25, and 27; cf. Diod. 19.76.1-5). Sulpicius celebrated a triumph (Act. Tr., Degrassi 70f., 542; not mentioned by Livy). On Poetelius, cf. Lübker no. 3. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Livy does not state who commanded the Roman force that recovered Luceria (9.26). Diod. (19.72.8-9) dates the colony in the previous year. (Broughton MRR I)
• Magister Equitum 313 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • With the Dictator Poetelius, according to Fast. Cap.; Degrassi 36f., 101, 418f. (Broughton MRR I)

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