Ruler · 401 – 272 BCE

Lucius Papirius Cursor

Lived 401 – 272 BCE; politician. Roman consul of Ancient Rome, 274 BCE – 272 BCE; also in the line of Roman Republic.

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Lived: 401 BCE – 272 BCE; 129 years
In office: 2 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

Roman consul

Ancient Rome · the 310th of 845 dated reigns · 753 BCE – 480 · read from the line of Roman Republic

306 before

Gaius Genucius Clepsina276 BCE

Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus275 BCE

Manius Curius Dentatus275 BCE

Lucius Papirius Cursor274 BCE – 272 BCE

Servius Cornelius Merenda274 BCE – …

Gaius Fabius Dorsuo Licinus273 BCE

Spurius Carvilius Maximus272 BCE

532 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 274 BCE – 272 BCE · 2 years · came to it aged 127

Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 272 BCE, the year they died

Also in the line of Roman Republic (304th of 754).

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