A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

8. C.AtiliusSerranus, eonsul B. C. 106 with Q. Servilius Caepio, the year in which Cicero and Pompey were born. Although a "stultissimus homo," according to Cicero, he was elected in preference to Q. Catulus (Obsequ. 101; Gel. 15.28 ; Veil. Pat. 2.53; Cic. pro Planc. 5). He was one of the senators who took up arms against Saturninus in B. C. 100. (Cic. pro C. Rabir. 7.)