Gaius Livius Salinator
Template:Short description Gaius Livius Salinator (died Template:Circa[1]) was a Roman consul in the year 188 BC and general who fought during the Antiochene war.
Salinator was the son of the Marcus Livius Salinator who was twice consul (219 and 207 BC) and censor in 204 BC.Template:Sfnm Gaius Salinator was inducted into the pontifices by 211 BC and served until around 170 BC.Template:Sfn He held the curule aedileship in 204 BCTemplate:Sfn and was elected to a praetorship two years later in 202; he served the year in Bruttium.Template:Sfnm He may have been a legate, commanding a fleet in Greece, during the Second Macedonian War from 199–98 before being relieved by Lucius Quinctius Flaminius.Template:Sfnm In 193 BC, he was a cavalry prefect under the consul Lucius Cornelius Merula in Gaul, during which he engaged in a battle near Mutina against the Boii.Template:Sfnm
Salinator was elected as praetor in the year 191 BC, during which he was assigned to command a Roman fleet in the Aegean during the war on Antiochus. There, he defeated Antiochus' fleet near Corycus.[2] He was prorogued into 190 BC before being succeeded by Lucius Aemilius Regillus, one of the praetors of that year; he then completed a mission to Lycia and headed an embassy to Bithynia before returning home.Template:Sfn Elected to the consulship of 188 BC, Salinator was assigned to Gaul but three days before he left, on 17 July under the proleptic Julian calendar, a total solar eclipse placed Rome into darkness.[3][4] During his time in Gaul he founded the city of Forum Livii.[5]
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