The Roman commanders, the proconsul Quintus Servilius Caepio and the consul Gnaeus Mallius Maximus, hindered Roman coordination and so the Cimbri succeeded in first defeating the legate Marcus Aurelius Scaurus and later inflicted a devastating defeat on Caepio and Maximus at the Battle of Arausio.

* Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, Roman consul and intellectual

The Roman consul Quintus Publilius Filo recaptured Neapolis by 326 BC and allowed it to remain a Greek city with some autonomy as a civitas foederata while strongly aligned with Rome.

In 65 BC, Crassus was elected censor with another conservative Quintus Lutatius Catulus ( Capitolinus ), himself son of a consul.

* Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, Roman consul and intellectual ( d. 402 )

* Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, Roman consul and pagan ( approximate date )

* December 31 – Quintus Fabius Maximus, consul suffectus 45 BC

* Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Roman consul and leader of the democratic party, is defeated by Quintus Lutatius Catulus outside Rome.

* The Battle of Herdonia is fought between Hannibal's Carthaginian army and Roman forces who are laying siege to Herdonia led by praetor Gnaeus Fulvius Flaccus, brother of the consul, Quintus Fulvius Flaccus.

* Macedonian forces led by Perseus of Macedon trap a Roman army led by consul Quintus Marcius Phillipus near Tempe, but the Macedonians fail to take advantage of their resulting superior tactical position.

In its immediate neighborhood were fought two of the most decisive actions of the war: the Battle of Beneventum, ( 214 BC ), in which the Carthaginian general Hanno was defeated by Tiberius Gracchus ; the other in 212 BC, when the camp of Hanno, in which he had accumulated a vast quantity of corn and other stores, was stormed and taken by the Roman consul Quintus Fulvius Flaccus.

She married the consul Decimus Haterius Agrippa and bore him a son Quintus Haterius Antoninus.

* Quintus Fabius Vibulanus becomes consul of the Roman Republic for the first of three times.

" The next year ( 106 BC ) another consul, Quintus Servilius Caepio, marched to Gaul and captured the disloyal community of Tolosa ( Toulouse ), where a huge sum of money ( the Gold of Tolosa ), was taken from shrines.

Marius took command ( following the deaths of the consul, Publius Rutilius Lupus, and the praetor Quintus Servilius Caepio ) and fought along with Sulla against the rebel cities, but retired from the war in its early stages – probably due to poor health ( it has been suggested that he suffered a stroke.

Despite public knowledge and disapproval of this, Afranius was elected consul in 60 BC, his colleague being Quintus Caecilius Metellus Celer.

* Quintus Mucius Scaevola ( consul ), consul 174 BC

* Quintus Mucius Scaevola Augur ( 159 – 88 BC ), nicknamed " Augur ", consul 117 BC

* Quintus Mucius Scaevola Pontifex ( died 82 BC ), nicknamed " Pontifex ", consul 95 BC

* Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, consul in 446

* Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus, consul in 485

In early March he narrowly averted one conspiracy by a group to replace him with the consul Quintus Sosius Falco while he was in Ostia inspecting the arrangements for grain shipments.

Strabo's last wife was Cosconia Gallita, sister of Servius Cornelius Lentulus Maluginensis ( suffect consul in 10 ) and Publius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio ( suffect consul in 2 ), and perhaps half-sister of Quintus Junius Blaesus ( suffect consul in 10 ).

Perhaps in response to Hamilcar's raids, Rome did build another fleet paid for with donations from wealthy citizens and it was that fleet which rendered the Carthaginian success in Sicily futile, as the stalemate Hamilcar produced in Sicily became irrelevant following the Roman naval victory at the Battle of the Aegates Islands in 241 BC, where the new Roman fleet under consul Gaius Lutatius Catulus was victorious over an undermanned and hastily built Carthaginian fleet.

* Gaius Lutatius Catulus, Roman consul

* March 10 – The Carthaginian fleet sent to relieve the Roman blockade of the Sicilian cities of Lilybaeum and Drepanum is totally defeated near the Aegates Islands off western Sicily by the Roman fleet led by Roman consul and commander, Gaius Lutatius Catulus.

* The Roman consul and commander, Gaius Lutatius Catulus, blockades the Sicilian cities of Lilybaeum and Drepanum with a fleet of 200 ships.

" Among these included former consul Lutatius Catulus and the orator Marcus Antonius, grandfather of Mark Anthony.

The Romans rejected these terms and appointed ten commissioners, led by Quantius Lutatius Cerco, brother of the consul and himself consul in 240 BC, to reexamine the conditions.

Quintus Lutatius Catulus ( 149-87 BC ) was consul of the Roman Republic in 102 BC, and the leading public figure of the gens Lutatia of the time.

# Domitia of the Ahenobarbi, who was mother of his homonymous son Quintus Lutatius Catulus ( consul 78, censor 65 BC ).

fr: Quintus Lutatius Catulus ( consul en-102 )

n. Caesar, father of the consul of 90 BC, married Popillia, widow of Quintus Lutatius Catulus, and mother of Quintus Lutatius Catulus, consul in 102 BC.

The new fleet was completed in 242 BC and entrusted to the consul Gaius Lutatius Catulus, assisted by the praetor Quintus Valerius Falto.

: Not to be confused with Quintus Lutatius Catulus, the consul of 102 BC, or the poet Gaius Valerius Catullus.

His brother, Quintus Lutatius Cerco, was a consul in the following year and a censor in 236 BC.

fr: Caius Lutatius Catulus ( consul en-242 )

* Domitia, wife of Quintus Lutatius Catulus ( consul 102 BC ) and mother of Quintus Lutatius Catulus ( Capitolinus ) ( consul 78 BC )

Marius was in Rome, and after becoming elected consul for 101 BC and deferring his Triumph over the Teutones, he marched north to join Catulus, whose command was prorogued into 101.

This was probably Catulus ' longest marriage ( c. 103-87 BC ) if, as seems likely, he wed her to secure Marian support for his election as a consul, which he only belatedly achieved at the comitia in 103 for 102 BC.

The Barbarians divided themselves into two bands, and it fell to the lot of the Cimbri to proceed through Noricum in the interior of the country against Catulus, and of a passage there, while the Teutones and Ambrones were to march through Liguria along the sea-coast against the consul Gaius Marius, who had set up camp on the Rhône.