Gaius Sulpicius Paterculus

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Gaius Sulpicius Paterculus served as a consul to the Roman Republic in 258 BC, together with Aulus Atilius Calatinus. He served as a commander in the First Punic War in Sicily,[1] and the Roman victory at the Battle of Sulci is accredited to him.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ihne, William; Joseph Anton, William Purdie Dickson, Theodor Mommsen (1871). The History of Rome. Richard Bentley, 61. 
  2. ^ Smith, William (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 134. 
Preceded by
Lucius Cornelius Scipio and Gaius Aquillius Florus
Consul of the Roman Republic
with Aulus Atilius Calatinus
258 BC
Succeeded by
Gaius Atilius Regulus and Gaius Sempronius Blaesus