Gaius Aquillius Florus

Gaius Aquillius Florus was a consul of the Roman Republic in the year 259 BC. His colleague was Lucius Cornelius Scipio.

During the First Punic War, Aquillius Florus was proconsul of Sicily for the year 258[1] and monitored the movements of the Carthaginian general Hamilcar.[2]

References
  1. T.R.S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1951, 1986), vol. 1, p. 206, citing Zonaras 8.11 and Polybius 1.24.8.
  2. Smith, William (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. p. 177. Archived from the original on 2006-08-22. Retrieved 2007-08-17.
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