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. In 262 BC, during the third year of the

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, he was elected consul. With his colleague Lucius Postumius Megellus, he besieged the Sicilian city of

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and won a victory over a Carthaginian mercenary army which had come to relieve the city.

References

* William Smith, ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, Vol. 3 p. 1279 {{DEFAULTSORT:Mamilius Vitulus, Quintus Mamilii 3rd-century BC Roman consuls 3rd-century BC Roman generals