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Marcus Atilius Regulus. He was consul in 267 B.C., and a second time in (256 B.C.) His history is a favorite Roman tale.After being taken captive by the Carthaginians, he was paroled and sent with a delegation to Rome. "According to this,... he then sought earnestly to dissuade the Senators from agreeing to any of the Carthaginian proposals, even to an exchange of prisoners, and, after he had succeeded, by his earnest appeals, in obtaining the rejection of the Carthaginian offers, he resisted all persuasions to break his parole,... returned with the ambassadors to Carthage, where the rulers put him to death with horrible tortures." (The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. XIX, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920, 661-662.)
John Clark Ridpath, Ridpath's History of the World, Vol. II (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 155. (Regulus, unmoved, departs.)
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