Flaminins

Flaminins are one of the family names of an ancient Roman patrician kind of Quinquents.

Of its members, the most famous are:

1) Flaminin served with Titus the Quinces in 208 under Marc Claudius Marcellus as a military tribune: he was the ruler of this city after the conquest of Tarenta. His military merits gave him the right to nominate a candidate directly to the consulate, bypassing the intermediate magistracies, and in 1988, he did not have another 30 years of age, was elected to the consuls, and he had to wage war against Philip of Macedon by lot. Having crossed over to Greece, he with the help of the epirtsi pushed Philip from Epirus to the Tempe Valley and successively occupied Thessaly, Phocis, Locridus, and Boeotia, while the Roman fleet traveled around the Peloponnese and forced the Achaeans to join the Romans. After that, Flaminin laid siege to Corinth from the sea and land, but did not take this city because of its inaccessibility; in 197 he moved to Thessaly, where on the plain of Farsals, in view of the Kinoskefal hills, a battle ensued that resulted in the defeat of the Macedonians.

In 196, the Istmic Games (in Corinth) read the Senate's Decree on the Restoration of the Freedom of Greece, but was soon followed by the division and organization of Greek territory according to a plan drawn up by the Senate and executed by Flaminin. While Flaminin remained in Greece, he directed all his efforts to reconcile the Greeks among themselves, improve their administration and judicial system, and restore the well-being of impoverished cities. He forced the Spartan tyrant Nabid to abandon his claims to Argos and other possessions outside of Laconia and accept the peace terms offered to him with the Romans. In the spring of 194, Flaminin withdrew the Roman troops from the Greek fortresses and returned to Italy, bringing with them many trophies, captives and hostages. In 192, Flaminin, whose diplomatic skills the Romans valued no less than his courage, was sent to Greece at the head of the embassy; he managed to reject the Greeks from the union with Antiochus and tie them closer to the friendship of the Romans. In 189 he was a censor; in 183 he was sent to Prusius to demand the release of Hannibal ; in 167 made augur .

2) Lucius Quinctions Flaminin , brother of the previous one. In 198, he went with his brother to Greece, under which he was entrusted with command of the fleet. In 192 he was consul ; took in Liguria several fortified points. In 184, the censor Caton expelled him from the list of senators for the fact that Flaminin in his consulate ordered him to be beheaded at a feast, to please his pet (or lover), prisoner (or convict). Soon, however, he was restored to his rights.