Lucius Postumius Megellus
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Lucius Postumius Megellus is the name of two Ancient Romans
of the gens
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Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....
of the gens
Gens
In ancient Rome, a gens , plural gentes, referred to a family, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same nomen and claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of a gens was called a stirps . The gens was an important social structure at Rome and throughout Italy during the...
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Postumius
Postumius can mean:*Three consuls called Lucius Postumius Albinus:**Lucius Postumius Albinus , ambushed by the Celtic Boii in 216 BC**Lucius Postumius Albinus **Lucius Postumius Albinus...
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- Lucius Postumius Megellus, son of Lucius, consul in 305 BC305 BCYear 305 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Megellus and Augurinus...
, 294 BC294 BCYear 294 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Megellus and Regulus...
, and 291 BC291 BCYear 291 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Megellus and Brutus...
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- Lucius Postumius Megellus, son of Lucius, consul in 262 BC262 BCYear 262 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Megellus och Vitulus...
, commanded at the Battle of AgrigentumBattle of AgrigentumThe Battle of Agrigentum was the first pitched battle of the First Punic War and the first large-scale military confrontation between Carthaginians and the Republic of Rome...
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