• elected in 141 BC. Gaius Laelius Sapiens was the son and heir of the Punic War general Gaius Laelius, himself consul in 190 BC. This Laelius had been former...
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  • Gaius Laelius was a Roman general and statesman, and a friend of Scipio Africanus, whom he accompanied on his Iberian campaign (210–206 BC; the Roman...
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  • the cognomen Sapiens; a Roman statesman Cenn Fáelad mac Aillila (died 679), referred to sapiens; an Irish scholar Gaius Laelius Sapiens (c. 188 BC-?)...
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    esteemed Cato the Elder was lecturing to Scipio Aemilianus and Gaius Laelius Sapiens. The original title of the work was Cato Maior. Its subtitle was...
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  • Laelius is a name that can refer to: Gaius Laelius, a Roman statesman, who was consul in 190 BC and friend of Scipio Africanus Gaius Laelius Sapiens (consul...
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    Gabinius' law, in 140 BC, agrarian reforms were proposed by the consul Gaius Laelius Sapiens; but he withdrew his proposals after an invasion (he was assigned...
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    dates back at least to Cicero's essay Laelius de Amicitia (XII.41). The title character Gaius Laelius Sapiens uses the metaphor to describe the decline...
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    compromise broke with political norms. A similar land reform proposal by Gaius Laelius Sapiens during his consulship in 140 BC was withdrawn after bitter opposition...
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    in 140 BC, under the consulship of Quintus Servilius Caepio and Gaius Laelius Sapiens, this matter was again brought before the Senate. Despite the priests'...
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  • Licinius Crassus and his wife Laelia Minor, herself a daughter of Gaius Laelius Sapiens (consul in 140 BC). Both sisters and their mother were known for...
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    distinguish between two sisters; for example, the daughters of Gaius Laelius Sapiens are known as Laelia Maior and Laelia Minor. Birth order is not the...
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    Aemilianus, with 15,000 soldiers and 2,000 cavalry to strengthen Gaius Laelius Sapiens who was a personal friend of Scipio Aemilianus Africanus. Despite...
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  • great-grandson of Quintus Mucius Scaevola Augur and great-great-grandson of Gaius Laelius Sapiens. On the paternal side this nobleman was the great grandson of Metellus...
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  • Gnaeus Servilius Caepio, he served as consul in 140 BC alongside Gaius Laelius Sapiens. He was the father of Quintus Servilius Caepio (consul 106 BC)....
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  • speakers: Scipio Aemilianus, consul of Rome in 147 BC and 134 BC. Gaius Laelius Sapiens, consul of Rome in 140 BC. Senior speakers: Lucius Furius Philus...
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  • of Gaius Laelius Sapiens. He had two daughters. One married Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica, the son of the consul of 111 BC. The other married Gaius Marius...
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  • masterpiece in Cicero's time, and was widely read. Gaius Fannius married Laelia, the daughter of Gaius Laelius Sapiens. On the advice of his father-in-law, Fannius...
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    election; it was defeated following a speech by the praetor, Gaius Laelius Sapiens. Gaius Licinius (C. f. C. n.) Crassus, probably son of the tribune of...
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  • filiation. Gaius Laelius, grandfather of Gaius Laelius, consul in 190 BC. Gaius Laelius C. f., the father of Gaius Laelius, consul in 190 BC. Gaius Laelius C....
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  • 141 Cnaeus Servilius Caepio, Consul Quintus Pompeius, Consul 140 Gaius Laelius Sapiens, Consul Quintus Servilius Caepio, Consul 139 Gnaeus Calpurnius Piso...
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  • of the Roman Republic 141 BC With: Quintus Pompeius Succeeded by Gaius Laelius Sapiens and Quintus Servilius Caepio Preceded by Quintus Caecilius Metellus...
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  • Caecilius Metellus Calvus? Quintus Fabius Maximus Servilianus? Gaius Laelius Sapiens Gaius Nigidius? 144 Quintus Marcius Rex Quintus Pompeius? Gnaeus Servilius...
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    permission to transport armed forces from Sicily to Africa, Cato and Gaius Laelius were appointed to escort the baggage ships. Yet there proved not to...
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  • direct opposite. a Deucalione from or since Deucalion A long time ago; from Gaius Lucilius, Satires VI, 284 a falsis principiis proficisci to set forth from...
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    this compromise held until 376 BC, when two of the tribunes of the plebs, Gaius Licinius Calvus Stolo and Lucius Sextius Lateranus, blocked the election...
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