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Roman
statesman and military leader. He was consul consul four times (237,
224, 212, 209 B.C.), censor (231), pontifex maximus [high priest]
(216), and urban praetor (215). He distinguished himself in campaigns
against the Gauls, Insubrians, and Ligurians. In the Second Punic War
he triumphed over Hanno, the Carthaginian general, in 212 BC. He
defeated (211) the Carthaginians near Beneventum, captured (211) Capua
after a prolonged siege, and overcame (209) Hannibal's garrisons in
Lucania and Bruttium.
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