died 217 BC
Roman political leader.
As tribune (232) he supported Roman expansion in northern Italy; his land bill (232) gave land to Roman plebeian s and gained him great popularity, but the bill's passage was seen as the cause of the Gallic invasion of 225 (repelled in 223), and he was held responsible. He was elected consul in 223 and 217. As censor (220) he built the Circus Flaminius in Rome and the Via Flaminia to Ariminum (Rimini). He died fighting Hannibal in the Second Punic War .