Marcus Popillius Laenas
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M. Popillius M.f. Laenas was a consul of the Roman Republic in the year (according to Varro) 359 BC. While consul, he defeated a Gallic army.
Near the end of his consulship with Cn. Manlius L.f. Capitolinus Imperiosus, the Tarquinians invaded the Roman territories on the Etruscan border (Livy VII, 12). Polybius (II, 18.1 - 20.7) is correct in stating that this Gallic war took place 30 years after the occupation of Rome by the Gauls (in 386/5 BC). Dio Cassius apparently identifies this war with the one in Furius Camillus' fifth dictatorship when the election of the consuls was resumed. Those events took place in 364 BC, about a decade earlier, as Livy VI, 42 tells.
For more information on the Laenas family, go to Laenas article.
| Preceded by: Marcus Fabius Ambustus and Gaius Poetelius Libo Visolus |
Consul of the Roman Republic with Gnaeus Manlius Capitolinus Imperiosus 359 BC |
Succeeded by: Gaius Fabius Ambustus and Gaius Plautius Proculus |
| Preceded by: Gaius Marcius Rutilus and Gnaeus Manlius Capitolinus Imperiosus |
Consul of the Roman Republic with Marcus Fabius Ambustus 356 BC |
Succeeded by: Gaius Sulpicius Peticus and Marcus Valerius Poplicola |
| Preceded by: Gaius Sulpicius Peticus and Titus Quinctius Poenus Capitolinus Crispinus |
Consul of the Roman Republic with Lucius Cornelius Scipio 350 BC |
Succeeded by: Lucius Furius Camillus and Appius Claudius Crassus Inregillensis |
| Preceded by: Lucius Furius Camillus and Appius Claudius Crassus Inregillensis |
Consul of the Roman Republic with Marcus Valerius Corvus 348 BC |
Succeeded by: Gaius Plautius Vennox Hypsaeo and Titus Manlius Imperiosus Torquatus |
