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Annius

4. ANNIUS, a Campanian, who is said to have been sent as ambassador to Rome after the battle of Cannae, B. C. 216, to demand that one of the consuls should henceforth be a Campanian. (V. Max. 6.4.1; Liv. 23.6, 22.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.