Gaius Marcius Rutilus

Gaius Marcius Rutilus (or " rutulus " ) was the first plebeian dictator of the Roman Republic; In addition, he was censor and consul four times.

For the first time he was elected in 357 BC the consul, then appointed the following year to be a dictator, to repel the invasion of the Etruscans. He surprised the enemy in his camp, and drove him out of the country, for which he was honored by the will of the people and against the will of the Senate with a triumphal procession.

Rutilus was in the year 352 BC consul again; he ran to the end of the term as Censor, and was elected to the resistance of the patricians. He was consul in the years 344 and 342 BC, when he led the army in the Samnite Wars.

There is a high probability that his dictatorship and other details of his career from his family, the Marcii, were invented.

Gaius Marcius Rutilus Censorinus His son was consul in the year 310 BC