Laetoria (gens)

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• Marcus Laetorius, a centurion primi pili, described in history as the first plebeian magistrate, in 495 BC, the year before the first secession of the plebs. Chosen to establish a collegium mercatorum, dedicate the Temple of Mercury, and superintend the corn market, he was probably plebeian aedile, although according to tradition this office was established along with that of tribune of the plebs, in order to negotiate an end to the secession. Some scholars have argued that he dedicated the Temple of Mercury as one of the Decemviri Sacris Faciundis.
• Gaius Laetorius, tribune of the plebs in BC 471, the year in which the lex Publilia passed the election of the tribunes to the comitia tributa, freeing the office from the direct influence of the patricians. The success of the rogation was due in no small part to the courage and energy of Laetorius.
• Marcus Laetorius Mergus, military tribune during the Third Samnite War, was accused of adultery by the tribune Cominius. He took his own life, but was tried and sentenced after his death.
• Marcus Laetorius M. f. M. n. Plancianus, magister equitum to the dictator Quintus Ogulnius Gallus, appointed to hold the Latin Games in 257 BC.
• Gaius Laetorius, curule aedile, the Senate's envoy to the consuls Appius Claudius Pulcher and Quintus Fulvius Flaccus in 212 BC, during the Second Punic War. He was praetor in 210, and decemvir sacris faciundis in 209.
• Lucius Laetorius, plebeian aedile in 202 BC, together with his colleague, Publius Aelius Tubero, celebrated the Epulum Jovis and Plebeian Games, but abdicated when their election was declared void ab initio for religious reasons.
• Gaius Laetorius, legate of the praetor Lucius Furius Purpureo against the Gauls, BC 200.
• Laetorius, a friend of Gaius Sempronius Gracchus, who attempted to stop Gracchus' pursuers from crossing a wooden bridge; but when he was unable to prevent their pursuit, took his own life.
• Marcus Laetorius, a senator allied with Gaius Marius, was proscribed by Sulla when he entered Rome in 87 BC, but escaped, and subsequently returned with Marius.

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