Publius Aquillius Gallus

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Publius Aquillius Gallus was a

Pompeius. Crassus's war against Parthia resulted in one of the worst defeats ever suffered by a Roman army, the Battle of Carrhae.[1]

References

  1. T.R.S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1952), vol. 2, p. 216, citing Plutarch, Cato Minor 43.4; and Cassius Dio
    39.32.3 and 35.3–36.1.