Gaius Flaminius

Roman general and statesman, of plebeian origin. Consul in 223 BC, he distributed the Ager Gallicus tribal lands left uninhabited since 283 BC. He was the first Roman commander to cross the R Po when he defeated the Insubres at the Addua (223 BC). He extended his road, the Flaminian Way, from Rome to Ariminum (Rimini) in 220 BC, and built the Circus Flaminius. Consul again in 217 BC, he tried to stem Hannibal's invasion of Etruria, but was defeated and killed at L Trasimeno.

Gaius Flaminius Nepos was a politician and consul of the Roman Republic in the 3rd century BC.

In the aftermath of the First Punic War, Flaminius, a novus homo, was the leader of a reform movement which sought to reorganize state land in Italy.

Flaminius was governor of Sicily in 227. In 223 Flaminius was elected consul for the first time, and with Publius Furius Philus he forced the Gauls to submit to Rome, creating the province of Cisalpine Gaul.

In 221 Flaminius was magister equitum to Marcus Minucius Rufus, then in 220 chosen as censor along with Lucius Aemilius Papus. During his term he arranged for the Via Flaminia to be built from Rome to Ariminum, established colonies at Cremona and Placentia, reorganized the Centuriate Assembly to give the poorer classes more voting power, and built the Circus Flaminius on the Campus Martius. Jacobs, Gaius Flaminius (1938) (in Dutch)