** Publius Decius Mus, Roman consul

* In renewed fighting, Pyrrhus of Epirus, leading the combined Tarantine, Oscan, Samnite, and Greek forces, wins a ' Pyrrhic victory ' against the Romans led by consul Publius Decius Mus at the Battle of Asculum, called such because his victory comes at a great cost to his own forces.

* The Battle of Sentinum west of Anconum ends in defeat for a formidable coalition of Samnites, Etruscans, Umbrians, and their Gallic allies at the hands of the Roman legions commanded by consuls Publius Decius Mus ( who is killed in the battle ) and Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus.

* Publius Decius Mus, Roman consul ( killed in the battle of Sentinum )

However one of Cornelius ' military tribunes, Publius Decius Mus led a small detachment to seize a hilltop, distracting the Samnites and allowing the Roman army to escape the trap.

Historians have noted the many similarities between the story of Publius Decius Mus, and an event said to have taken place on Sicily in 258 when the Romans were fighting the First Punic War against Carthage.

Both the First and the Second Samnite War starts with an invasion of Samnium by a Cornelius, the way in which a Roman army was led into a trap resembles the famous disaster at the Caudine Forks in 321, and there are similarities to the campaigns of Publius Cornelius Arvina in 306 and Publius Decius Mus ( the son of the hero of Saticula ) in 297.

The consul Publius Decius Mus was the Roman commander, and his able force, though defeated, broke the back of Pyrrhus ' Hellenistic army, and guaranteed the security of the city itself.

In fact Publius Decius Mus was far away in south Samnium.

The Romans were commanded by consuls Publius Decius Mus and Fabius Maximus Rullianus, and amounted to about 40, 000 men: 4 legions, a strong contingent of Roman cavalry, 1, 000 elite cavalry men from Campania, 4 allied and Latin legions and a strong contingent of allied and Latin cavalry.

Fabius faced the Samnites ; Publius Decius was opposite the Gauls.

The battle opened with a ferocious attack by the Gauls on the Romans under Publius Decius Mus.

Publius Decius Mus responded with a cavalry charge which, although initially effective, was defeated by the Gallic chariots.

The Battle of Asculum ( or Ausculum ) took place in 279 BC between the Romans under the command of Consul Publius Decius Mus and the combined Tarantine, Oscan, Samnite, and Epirote forces, under the command of the Greek king Pyrrhus of Epirus.

* Publius Decius Mus ( received two grass crowns — one from his own army, and another from the troops which he had rescued when surrounded )

Likewise those invoked along with other deities by the consul Publius Decius Mus as an act of devotio before his death in battle are simply " Lares ".

Publius Decius Mus is the name of three Romans who ( according to legend ) sacrificed themselves in battle, in the belief that the infernal gods would then destroy their enemies.

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The battle was fought between the Romans ( led by Manlius Torquatus and Publius Decius Mus ) and the Latin army.

The Roman general Publius Mus managed to use the terrain to reduce the effectiveness of the Greek cavalry and elephants.

With this army, he invaded Macedonia and defeated the Roman praetor Publius Juventius in 149 BC.

The victorious Roman general, Publius Cornelius Sulla, left the Athenians their lives and did not sell them into slavery ; he also restored the previous government, in 86 BC.

* Publius Claudius Pulcher, Roman consul

File: Denarius Publius Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus 1 Obverse. jpg | Club over his shoulder on a Roman denarius ( ca.

Publius Cornelius Scipio, the consul who commanded the Roman force sent to intercept Hannibal, and Scipio Africanus ' father, had not expected Hannibal to make an attempt to cross the Alps, since the Romans were prepared to fight the war in Iberia.

* 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola, Roman consul, celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.

Rivalry between him and Arminius, the Cheruscan leader who inflicted the devastating defeat at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest on the Romans under Publius Quinctilius Varus in 9 AD, prevented a concerted attack on Roman territory across the Rhine in the north ( by Arminius ) and in the Danube basin in the south ( by Maroboduus ).

In Hispania, a young Roman commander, Publius Cornelius Scipio ( later to be given the agnomen Africanus because of his feats during this war ), eventually defeated the larger but divided Carthaginian forces under Hasdrubal and two other Carthaginian generals.

* 9 – Arminius ' alliance of six Germanic tribes ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

In the meantime in Iberia, which served as the main source of manpower for the Carthaginian army, a second Roman expedition under Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major took New Carthage by assault and ended Carthaginian rule over Iberia in the battle of Ilipa.

Publius Terentius Afer ( 195 / 185 – 159 BC ), better known in English as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic, of North African descent.

Publius Vergilius Maro ( October 15, 70 BC – September 21, 19 BC ), usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period.

Likely born a free Roman citizen, by his own account Vitruvius served the Roman army under Julius Caesar with the otherwise poorly identified Marcus Aurelius, Publius Minidius, and Gnaeus Cornelius.

Publius Minidius is also written as Publius Numidicus and Publius Numidius, speculated as the same Publius Numisius inscribed on the Roman Theatre at Heraclea.

* Marcus Valerius Messalla Appianus and Publius Sulpicius Quirinius are Roman Consuls.

* Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman general, at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, said to have committed suicide ( b. 46

* A Roman army under the consul Publius Cornelius Scipio is transported by sea to Massilia ( modern Marseille ) to prevent Hannibal from advancing on Italy.

* The Roman Senate, appalled by the early setback at Ticinus, orders Tiberius Sempronius Longus to travel from Sicily to reinforce Publius Cornelius Scipio's troops.

Roman and Numidian forces under the leadership of the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio and his Numidian ally, Masinissa, defeat a combined army of Carthaginians and their Numidian allies under the command of Hannibal and forces Carthage to capitulate.

Consul Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first republican triumph on 1 March.

* Publius Licinius Valerianus Minor or Valerian the Younger was another son of Valerian I. Consul in 265, he was probably killed by usurpers, some time between the capture of his father in 260 and the assassination of his brother Gallienus in 268.

Due to his superior cavalry and his elephants, he defeated the Romans, led by Consul Publius Valerius Laevinus, in the Battle of Heraclea in 280 BC.

* 504 BC: Consul Publius Valerius Publicola grants due process rights to all Roman citizens, criminalizes all future attempts to plot to seize a tyranny.

124 BC – 73 BC ) was a Roman statesman and orator ; not to be confused with Gaius Aurelius L. f. Cotta who was Consul in 252 with Publius Servilius Q. f.

During the 4th century BC, a series of reforms were passed ( the leges Valeriae Horatiae or the " laws of the Consul Publius Valerius Publicola and the Dictator Quintus Hortensius "), which ultimately required that any law passed by the Plebeian Council have the full force of law over both Plebeians and Patricians.

The Battle of Heraclea took place in 280 BC between the Romans under the command of Consul Publius Valerius Laevinus and the combined forces of Greeks from Epirus, Tarentum, Thurii, Metapontum, and Heraclea under the command of King Pyrrhus of Epirus.

He was the father of another Publius Metilius Nepos, Consul Suffectus in 103 and again designated for 128, dying in 127 or 128, who married Pontia and had issue Publius Metilius Secundus Nepos, Consul Suffectus in 123, married to Aquilia, with female issue.

Publius Lentulus was, according to the Deeds of the Divine Augustus, a Roman Consul during the reign of Augustus ( 63 BC-14 AD ), and is said to have been Governor of Judea before Pontius Pilate.

No Governor of Jerusalem ; no Procurator of Judea is known to have been called Lentulus and a Roman governor would not have addressed the Senate in the way represented, but the Deeds of the Divine Augustus list a Publius Lentulus as being elected as a Roman Consul during the reign of Augustus ( 27 BC-14 AD ).