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Sextus Atilius Serranus

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Sextus Atilius Serranus was a Roman politician in the second century BC.

Career

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In 139 BC or earlier, Serranus served as praetor. In 136 BC, he was elected consul together with Lucius Furius Philus as his colleague.[1] The proconsul of Hispania Citerior, Gaius Hostilius Mancinus, had signed a humiliating peace treaty with the Numantines.[2] Having refused the treaty, Serranus sent Mancinus back to the Numantines in chains.[3] In 135 BC, Serranus served as proconsul of Cisalpine Gaul.

References

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  1. ^ Fasti Capitolini
  2. ^ Cicero, De officiis, III, 109
  3. ^ Charles Ludwig Elvers, The New Pauly's Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity, Vol. 2, p. 213