Gaius Flaminius was a Roman consul for 187 BC, serving with Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. Flaminius' father was Gaius Flaminius Nepos, who was killed in the Battle of Lake Trasimene. In 210 BC, Flaminius served as a Quaestor of Scipio Africanus in Spain. In 196 BC, he became a curule aedile and during his aedileship, he had distributed large quantities of low priced grain amongst the people there. He was then elected Praetor in 193 BC and was given Hispania Citerior as a province where he carried a successful war by besieging a town full of wealth known as Litabrum and successfully captured it. Flaminius then was elected Consul in 187 BC. Him and his colleague were given the task of fighting the Friniates and the Apuani, (Ligurians) who were raiding Northern Italy. After winning several battles
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| - Gaius Flaminius was a Roman consul for 187 BC, serving with Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. Flaminius' father was Gaius Flaminius Nepos, who was killed in the Battle of Lake Trasimene. In 210 BC, Flaminius served as a Quaestor of Scipio Africanus in Spain. In 196 BC, he became a curule aedile and during his aedileship, he had distributed large quantities of low priced grain amongst the people there. He was then elected Praetor in 193 BC and was given Hispania Citerior as a province where he carried a successful war by besieging a town full of wealth known as Litabrum and successfully captured it. Flaminius then was elected Consul in 187 BC. Him and his colleague were given the task of fighting the Friniates and the Apuani, (Ligurians) who were raiding Northern Italy. After winning several battles
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- with Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
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After
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| - Gaius Flaminius was a Roman consul for 187 BC, serving with Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. Flaminius' father was Gaius Flaminius Nepos, who was killed in the Battle of Lake Trasimene. In 210 BC, Flaminius served as a Quaestor of Scipio Africanus in Spain. In 196 BC, he became a curule aedile and during his aedileship, he had distributed large quantities of low priced grain amongst the people there. He was then elected Praetor in 193 BC and was given Hispania Citerior as a province where he carried a successful war by besieging a town full of wealth known as Litabrum and successfully captured it. Flaminius then was elected Consul in 187 BC. Him and his colleague were given the task of fighting the Friniates and the Apuani, (Ligurians) who were raiding Northern Italy. After winning several battles against the Friniates and Apuani, he successfully gave peace to Northern Italy after destroying them. Flaminius built a road from Bononia (Bologna) to Arretium (Arezzo).
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