Gaius Iulius Iullus - Gaius Iulius Iullus (consul 447 BC)

Gaius Iulius Iullus (consul 447 BC)

Gaius Iulius C.f. C.n. Iullus, son of consul 482 BC, was consul in 447 BC, with Manius Geganius Macerinus, and again in 435 BC, with Lucius Verginius Tricostus. In the latter year Rome was visited with such grievous pestilence, that not only were the Romans unable to march out of their own territory to devastate the enemy's, but even offered no opposition to the Fidenates and Veientes, who advanced almost up to the Colline gate. While Iulius manned the walls, his colleague consulted the senate and eventually named a dictator. According to Licinius Macer, Iulius was elected consul for the third time in the following year, with his colleague of the preceding. Other accounts mentioned other persons as the consuls; and others again gave consular tribunes this year.