•
Quintus Poetelius Libo Visolus, one of the plebeian members of the second decemvirate, which held power at Rome from 450 to 449 BC, before being overthrown. • Gaius Poetelius Q. f. Libo Visolus, the father of Gaius Poetilius Libo Visolus, consul in 360 BC. •
Gaius Poetelius C. f. Q. n. Libo Visolus,
consul in 360 BC, defeated the
Tiburtines and the
Gauls, and was awarded a
triumph. As
tribune of the plebs in 358, he had passed a law intended to curb
ambitus (bribery). He was consul again in 346 and 326, and in the latter year passed the
lex Poetelia Papiria, abolishing a form of
debt bondage. • Gaius Poetelius C. f. C. n. Libo Visolus,
dictator in 313 BC, during the
Second Samnite War, he had some success against the
Samnites, but some authorities credit the consul,
Gaius Junius Bubulcus Brutus.
Niebuhr and
Müller suggest that it was he, rather than his father, who brought forward the
lex Poetelia Papiria. • Marcus Poetelius M. f. M. n. Libo, consul in 314 BC, and
magister equitum to the dictator
Gaius Poetelius Libo in 313. Despite his victories over the Samnites, he was denied the honour of a triumph. • Publius Poetelius, one of three ambassadors sent to
Syphax, the king of
Numidia, in 210 BC. • Gaius Poetilius C. f. Paullus, a soldier in the
praetorian guard, buried at Rome, aged twenty-seven, having served for eight years. • Publius Poetellius P. l. Syrys, a freedman who worked as a
lanista, or
gladiator trainer, buried at Rome, aged forty-eight. ==Footnotes==