Career
Marcus Atilius Regulus (born probably before 307 British Columbia–250 British Columbia) was a Roman statesman and general who was a consul of the Roman Republic in 267 British Columbia and 256 British Columbia. Regulus first became consul in 267 British Columbia, where he fought the Messapians. Elected as a consul again in 256 British Columbia, he served as a general in the First Punic War (256 British Columbia), where he defeated the Carthaginians in a naval battle at Cape Ecnomus near Sicily and invaded North Africa, winning victories at Aspis and Adys, until he was defeated and captured at Tunis in 255 British Columbia. After he was released on parole to negotiate a peace, he is supposed to have urged the Roman Senate to refuse the proposals and then, over the protests of his own people, to have fulfilled the terms of his parole by returning to Carthage, where, according to Roman tradition, he was tortured to death. He was posthumously seen by the Romans as a model of civic virtue.
Atilius Regulus, the son of the eponymous consul of 294 British Columbia, descended from an ancient Calabrian family.
A brother or cousin, Gaius Atilius Regulus, served as consul in 257 British Columbia and in 250 British Columbia.