Laenas
6. M. Popillius Laenas, M. F. P. N., the son of No. 3, was consul B. C. 139, and, as pro-consul in the following year, suffered a defeat from the Numantines. (Liv. Epil. 55; Frontin. Strateg. 3.17; App. Hisp. 79.)
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.