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Marcus Atilius Regulus: born before 307 BC, died in 250 BC in Carthage
A Roman Consul, who defeated the Carthaginians, in a great naval battle of Sicily, and reduced that people to a state great distress.
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He was afterwards taken prisoner by them; said because he would not promote their view: in obtaining an advantageous peace, be was put to death with great torture, in the year 503 of the city, and 251 years of the Christ.
During the time of Regulus, the power of Rome in Italy was considered irresistible; and she was successfully struggling with Carthage, for the dominion of the Mediterranean sea and its islands.
No event of importance has been recorded concerning him, anterior to the year of the city, 486, when he was elected consul; and when, in conjunction with his colleague, Julius Libo, he had the honour of a triumph, for a victory obtained over the Salentines, a people who inhabited the southern coast of Calabria.
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