Mammula

• a Roman proper name: M. Cornelius Mammula, Liv. 42, 6.

the name of a patrician family of the Cornelia gens, but which never became of much importance in the state.

1. A. Cornelius Mammula, was praetor, B. C. 217, at the commencement of the second Punic war, in which year lie vowed a ver sacrum (Dict. of Ant. s. v.), but this vow was not fulfilled till B. C. 195 (Liv. 33.44, compared with 22.9, sub fin.). In B. C. 216 Mammula was propraetor in Sardinia, and applied in vain to the senate for corn and pay for his troops. (Liv. 23.21; V. Max. 7.6.1.)

2. A. Cornelius Mammula, praetor B. C. 191, in which year the war with Antiochus broke out, received as his province the southern part of Italy (Bruttii). (Liv. 35.24, 36.2, 37.2, 4.)

3. P. Cornelius Mammula, praetor B. C. 180, with the province of Sicily. (Liv. 40.35.)

4. M. Cornelius Mammula, was sent with four others as ambassador to Perseus, king of Macedonia, and Ptolemy, king of Egypt, in B. C. 173. (Liv. 42.6.)