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Lucius Gellius[1] (c. 136 BC[2] – c. 54 BC) was a Roman politician and general who was one of two Consuls of the Republic in 72 BC along with Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus. A supporter of Pompey, he is noted for being one of the consular generals who led Roman legions against the slave armies of Spartacus in the Third Servile War.

  1. ^ The cognomen Publicola, given by some sources, belongs only to his adopted son, the consul of 36 BC. Ernst Badian, "The Clever and the Wise: Two Roman cognomina in context", Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, supplement 51 (1988), pp. 6–12, doi:10.1111/j.2041-5370.1988.tb02004.x, JSTOR 43768532; entry in Oxford Classical Dictionary
  2. ^ Oxford Classical Dictionary, "Gellius, Lucius"

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