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Lucius Postumius Megellus
Lucius Postumius
Consul (with Tiberius Minucius) who won at Tifernum and took Bovianum.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 9 §44 Lucius Postumius
Consul who outmaneuvered and crushed the Samnites at Tifernum and took Bovianum.
- The History of Rome, Book 10 §32 Lucius Postumius Megellus
Consul of 294 BC, who stormed Samnite towns and took a contested triumph for Etruria.
- The History of Rome, Book 27 §6 Lucius Postumius Megellus
An old precedent: an interrex elected consul at the very election he held.