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Lollius

1. A Samnite hostage after the war with Pyrrhus, who fled from Rome, collected a body of adventurers, and took possession of a fort, Caricinum in Samnium, from which he made predatory excursions, until he was overpowered and the fort taken by Q. Ogulnius Gallus and C. Fabius Pictor, B. C. 269. (Zonar. 8.17; Dionys. ap. Mai, Script. Vet. Nov. Collect. vol. ii. p. 526.)

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.