Quintus Baebius Tamphilus

Quintus Baebius Tamphilus was a Roman official who participated in the negotiations with Carthage, while trying to prevent the Second Punic War.

Almost nothing is known about his life, but he seems to have been praetor BC before 218, because when Hannibal besieged allied with the Romans, the city of Saguntum ( Sagunto ) and the Sagunter in Rome nachsuchten for help, the Senate and sent Baebius Publius Valerius Flaccus to Hispania to move Hannibal to leave Saguntum, and then to travel to Carthage, to demand his extradition because of the collapse of contract at the end of the First Punic War. The delegation was heard by the Carthaginians, though, but it turned the city behind Hannibal ( Livy 21.6 ).

Later in the same year Baebius was again a member of a five-member - appointed by Livy as " older men " - delegation that was sent with the declaration of war to Carthage and then traveled back through Hispania and Gaul, where they - with varying success - enlisted allies ( Livy 21, 18). Then Baebius no longer appears in the sources.

His sons Gnaeus Baebius Tamphilus and Marcus Baebius Tamphilus were both consuls.

• Politicians ( Roman Republic )
• Born in the 3rd century BC
• Died on the 3rd or 2nd century BC
• Man