About Gaius Claudius Canina
Lived 325 BC – 273 BC (aged 51–52). Gaius Claudius Canina was a Roman politician and military personnel.
Gaius Claudius Canina was a Roman politician in the third century BC.
Career Gaius Claudius Canina was consul in 285 BC, with Marcus Aemilius Lepidus as his colleague and in 273 in with Gaius Fabius Dorsuo Licinus. During the first consulship nothing happened that was worth mentioning, but in the second, he was victorious in the war against the Lucani, Samnites, and Brutti.
In this year the colonies of Cosa and Paestum were founded, and a treaty of friendship was signed with Ptolemy II of Egypt.
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Roman consul 285 BC
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Gaius Claudius Canina was born in 325 BC in Ancient Rome.
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Gaius Claudius Canina died in 273 BC.
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Gaius Claudius Canina was a politician and military personnel.
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