person
Lucius Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus
Lucius Minucius
also: L. Minucius
Consul who let himself be besieged on the Algidus by the Aequi, prompting the appointment of Cincinnatus as dictator to relieve him.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 3 §25 Lucius Minucius
Consul this year; besieged on the Algidus by the Aequi, his plight brought about the famous dictatorship of Cincinnatus.
- The History of Rome, Book 4 §12 prefect of the corn-supply
Lucius Minucius, made corn-prefect in the famine of 440 BC; his denunciation helped doom Spurius Maelius.
- The History of Rome, Book 8 §33 Lucius Minucius
The consul rescued from a siege by Cincinnatus, kept on as legate, an exemplum of clemency.
- The History of Rome, Book 40 §36 Lucius Minucius
Legate of Fulvius Flaccus who reports the Spanish victories to the Senate and is questioned by Gracchus on the army.