Sextilius
3. M. Sextilius, of Fregellae, assured the consuls in the second Punic war, B. C. 209, that eighteen of the Roman colonies were ready to furnish nish the state with soldiers, when twelve had refused to do so. (Liv. 27.9, 10).
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.