Libo, Poetelius
4. M. Poetelius Libo, M. F. M. N., consul B. C. 314, with C. Sulpicius Longus, and magister equitum in the following year, 313, to the dictator, C. Poetelius Libo. In his consulship, Poetelius and his colleague gained a brilliant victory over the Samnites, near Caudium, and afterwards proceeded to lay siege to Beneventum; but, according to the triumphal Fasti, it was Sulpicius alone who obtained the honour of a triumph. (Liv. 9.24_28; Diod. 19.73.)
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