Flaminius
Fla-min'i-us, (Caius,) a Roman general, noted for
his valour, became tribune of the people in 232 B.C., and
procured the passage of an agrarian law which was
violently opposed by the Optimates. In 225 or 223 he
was elected consul, and led an army against the Gauls.
Having been chosen consul a second time, he commanded
at the battle of Lake Thrasyme...
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Gaius Flaminius Nepos was a politician and consul of the Roman Republic in the 3rd century BC. He was the greatest
popular leader to challenge the authority of the Senate before the Gracchi a century later.
In the aftermath of the First Punic War, Flaminius, a novus homo, was the leader of a reform movement which sought to
reorganize state land i...
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Gaius, consul for the first time in B.C. 223, when he gained a victory over the Insubrian Gauls; and censor in 220,
when he executed two great works which bore his name-viz., the Circus Flaminius and the Via Flaminia. In his second
consulship (217 B.C.) he was defeated and slain by Hannibal, at the battle of the Lake Trasimenus (Livy, xxi. 57;
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