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120 BC (search for this): entry publicola-gellius-bio-1
Publi'cola, Ge'llius
1. L. Gellius Publicola, was the contubernalis of the consul C. Papirius Carbo, B. C. 120 (Cic. Brut. 27). None of his family had held any of the higher offices of the state before him, and we do not know how he rose into distinction.
He must, at all events, have been far advanced in years when he attained the consulship.
The year of his praetorship is not mentioned; but after his praetorship he received the province of Achaia, with the title of proconsul; and during his government he offered, in mockery, his mediation to the rival philosophers of Athens, to reconcile their disputes (Cic. de Leg. 1.20). In B. C. 74 he defended the cause of M. Octavius Ligur, whose adversary was unjustly favoured by the praetor Verres (Cic. Ver. 1.48). In B. C. 72 Gellius was consul with Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus.
The two consuls carried on war against Spartacus. Gellius at first defeated Crixus, one of the principal generals of Spartacus, near mount Garganus in Apulia, and