The location was the site of a major defeat of the Marici by the legions of Marcus Claudius Marcellus, which was celebrated in a tragedy by the Latin poet Naevius.
He served either in the Roman army or among the socii in the First Punic War, and thus must have reached manhood before 241.
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The earlier part of it treated of the mythical adventures of Aeneas in Sicily, Carthage, and Italy, and borrowed from the interview of Zeus and Thetis in the first book of the Iliad the idea of the interview of Jupiter and Venus; which Virgil has made one of the cardinal passages in the Aeneid.
Gnaeus Pompeius | Naevius | Gnaeus Servilius Caepio | Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo | Gnaeus Octavius | Gnaeus Naevius | Gnaeus Julius Agricola | Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus | Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Hispanus | Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina | Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna Magnus | Gnaeus Arrius Antoninus |