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Gaius Lucretius Gallus was created duumvir navalis with Gaius Matienus in 181 BCE, in order to equip a fleet against the Ligurians. The historian Livy calls him simply Gaius Lucretius, but most scholars assume this is the same as Gaius Lucretius Gallus.

He was praetor in 171 BCE, and received the command of the fleet in the war against Perseus of Macedon. He was a worthy match for the consul Publius Licinius Crassus, and distinguished himself by his cruelties and extortions in Greece. With the money which he had amassed in the war, he constructed an aqueduct at Antium, and adorned the shrine of Aesculapius with votive pictures.

On his return to Rome in 170 BCE, the Athenians and Chalcidians brought bitter complaints against him, in consequence of which he was accused by Gnaeus Aufidius and another tribune of the plebs before the people, and condemned to pay a heavy fine.

References

1. Livy, Ab Urbe Condita Libri 40.26
2. Livy, Ab Urbe Condita Libri 42.28, 31, 35, 48, 56, 63, 43.4, 6, 7, 8
3. Plb. 27.6

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Lucretius (4)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 418.

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