Family
Regulus was a younger son of the Roman hero Marcus Atilius Regulus, the consul captured during the First Punic War, and grandson of another Marcus Atilius Regulus. His elder brother was Roman consul for the year 227 BC, together with Publius Valerius Flaccus, and consul suffectus for 217 BC replacing Gaius Flaminius and later censor. An uncle of the same name was also twice consul during the First Punic War.
Regulus's father Marcus Atilius Regulus died by 250 BC, by a manner debated subsequently by historians. (Most now believe Roman accounts of his barbaric death to be propaganda). His mother Marcia allegedly tortured two Punic prisoners to death in revenge. According to Livy, etc., the hostage consul had at least two surviving sons and one surviving daughter when he returned to Carthage.
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