Gaius Laelius
Gaius Laelius was a politician of the Roman Republic and friend of the elder Scipio Africanus.
He participated in the campaigns of Scipio in Spain, where he is first attested 209 BC, when he brought the message of taking New Carthage to Rome. In the following years he was entrusted with command on land and at sea, as well as diplomatic missions in North Africa, where Scipio after his consulate translated 205 BC. Laelius landed in the region of Hippo Regius where it accounts for rich pickings. 203 BC he fought against Syphax, king of the Massäsylier who, after he had broken his alliance with Scipio was gone over to the Carthaginians, defeated him and brought him to Rome. At the Battle of Zama Laelius commanded the Italic cavalry on the left wing; the victory of the Romans, he had a considerable share, and brought the news of victory to Rome.
With the support of his friend Scipio, he held the first of his family (homo novus ) honorum the offices of Cursus. He was quaestor in 202 BC and was elected BC 197 to the plebeian aedile. 196 BC, he was employed as praetor in Sicily. As consul 190 (together with Lucius Cornelius Scipio, the brother of his friend ) he dealt with the organization of the recently conquered Celtic territory in northern Italy ( Cisalpine Gaul ): Placentia and Cremona were repopulated and founded a new colony at Bononia.
174 and 170 BC, he was still working as an envoy ( to Perseus of Macedon and the Celts in the Eastern Alps ) and supplied by 160 BC the historian Polybius information.
His son of the same was a friend of the younger Scipio.
- Consul ( Roman Republic )
- Born in the 3rd century BC
- Died in the 2nd century BC
- Man