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Pontius Telesinus

Telesinus

also: Telesinus

The Samnite commander who led the assault on Rome at the Colline Gate in 82 BC during the Sullan civil war and was defeated and killed there. Cicero cites him in Pro Caecina as an example of someone cast out 'by' the city as opposed to 'from' it.

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