Marcus Atilius Regulus (consul 227 BC)

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Marcus Atilius M.f. M.n. Regulus, a son of Marcus Atilius Regulus, the consul captured during the First Punic War, and grandson of Marcus Atilius Regulus (consul 294 BC), was Roman consul for the year 227 BC, together with Publius Valerius Flaccus, and consul suffectus for 217 BC replacing Gaius Flaminius who was killed in battle at Lake Trasimene. Atilius Regulus agreed to accompany Varro and Lucius Aemilius Paullus along with the other former consul Servilius Geminus, but returned to Rome pleading ill-health and old age. He thus survived the massacre of the Roman army at the Battle of Cannae.

Atilius Regulus was chosen a censor in 214 BC along with Publius Furius Spurii filius Philus, but had to resign his office when his colleague was killed in battle.

His brother was Gaius Atilius Regulus (consul 225 BC), was killed in battle in the year of his consulship. An uncle of the same name was also twice consul during the First Punic War.

Source: Livy, History of Rome.