Quintus Luctatius Catŭlus

, went with 300 ships during the first Punic war against the Cart hag in i ans, and destroyed 600 of their ships under Hamilcar, near the Ægates. This celebrated victory put an end to the war.――An orator, distinguished also as a writer of epigrams, and admired for the neatne , elegance, and polished style of his compositions. He is supposed to be the same as the colleague of Marius, when a consul the fourth time; and he shared with him the triumph over the Cimbri. He was, by his colleague’s order, suffocated in a room filled with the smoke of burning coals. Lucan , bk. 2 , li. 174 .— Plutarch , Caius Marius .――A Roman sent by his countrymen to carry a present to the god of Delphi, from the spoils taken from Asdrubal. Livy , bk. 27 .