Caius Flāmĭnius

, a Roman consul of a turbulent disposition, who was drawn into a battle near the lake of Thrasymenus, by the artifice of Annibal. He was killed in the engagement, with an immense number of Romans, B.C. 217. The conqueror wished to give a burial to his body, but it was not found in the heaps of slain. While tribune of the people he proposed an agrarian law against the advice of his friends, of the senate, and of his own father. Cicero , de Invent i one , bk. 2 , ch. 17 .— Livy , bk. 22 , ch. 3 , . — Polybius. — Florus , bk. 2 , ch. 6 .— Valerius Maximus , bk. 1 , ch. 6 .