Editing Gaius Nautius Rutilus

{{Short description|Consul of the Roman Republic in 475 BC and 458 BC}}
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| name               = Gaius Nautius Rutilus
| image = 
| birth_date = Unknown
| birth_place = [[Ancient Rome]]
| death_date = Unknown
| death_place = [[Ancient Rome]]
| office     =[[List of Roman Republican consuls|Consul]] of the [[Roman Republic]]
| term_start = 1 August 475 BC <ref>Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.</ref>
| term_end           = 31 July 474 BC
| alongside          = [[Publius Valerius Poplicola (consul 475 BC)]]
| predecessor        = [[Aulus Verginius Tricostus Rutilus]], [[Spurius Servilius Priscus Structus (consul 476 BC)]]
| successor          = [[Lucius Furius Medullinus (consul 474 BC)]], [[Gnaeus Manlius Vulso (consul 474 BC)]]
| children = 
| term_start2  = 1 August 458 BC
| term_end2           = 31 July 457 BC
| alongside2          = [[Lucius Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus]]
| predecessor2        = [[Quintus Fabius Vibulanus (consul 467 BC)|Quintus Fabius Vibulanus]], [[Lucius Cornelius Maluginensis Uritinus]]
| successor2          = [[Gaius Horatius Pulvillus]], [[Quintus Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus]]
}}

'''Gaius Nautius Rutilus''' ({{fl}} {{c.}} 475 – 457 BC) was a Roman politician who was [[Roman consul|consul]] of the [[Roman Republic]] from 475 BC until 474 BC and from 458 BC until 457 BC.

== Biography ==
Nautius was probably the brother, or perhaps the son of [[Spurius Nautius Rutilus (consul 488 BC)|Spurius Nautius Rutilus]], consul in 488 BC.

In his first consulship he was the senior consul, and his colleague was [[Publius Valerius Poplicola (consul 475 BC)|Publius Valerius Poplicola]]. Nautius was given command of Roman forces against the [[Volsci]] who had invaded [[Latium]].  Nautius ravaged the Volscian territory, but there was no significant engagement with the enemy.

Nautius held the consulship a second time in 458 BC with [[Lucius Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus]]. During his second consulship, he successfully carried on war against the Sabines. That same year, the [[Aequi]] attacked the allied city of ''[[Tusculum]]'' and defeated his colleague, Minucius. Nautius Rutilus returned to Rome to oversee the [[Roman Senate]] electing a ''[[Roman dictator|dictator]]'', [[Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus]], to [[battle of Mount Algidus|deal with the invaders]].

==References==
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*[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aentry%3Drutilus-nautius-bio-2 Gaius Nautius Rutilus] in Smith's ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology''
* [[Livy]], [[Ab Urbe Condita Libri|Ab Urbe Condita]], 2.53

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