Aquilius
or
Aquillius.
1.
A Roman consul who held office in B.C. 129, finishing the war against Aristonicus, son of
Eumenes, king of Pergamus.
2.
Nepos. A general and consul (B.C. 101). He ended
the Servile War in Sicily, but in 88 was defeated and taken by Mithridates, who put him to
death by pouring molten gold down his throat. See Appian,
Bell. Mithridat. 26.