Gaius Furius Pacilus was a Roman statesman and general during the middle era of the

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. He was one of the two

consuls A consul is an official representative of a government who resides in a foreign country to assist and protect citizens of the consul's country, and to promote and facilitate commercial and diplomatic relations between the two countries. A consu ...

of 251 BCE, serving with Lucius Caecilius Metellus. They fought against the

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in the ongoing

First Punic War The First Punic War (264–241 BC) was the first of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the early 3rd century BC. For 23 years, in the longest continuous conflict and grea ...

. They campaigned in

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, but achieved little.Lendering, p. 101.

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