Gnaeus Fulvius Maximus Centumalus

Gnaeus Fulvius Maximus Centumalus (c. 340 BC – c. 260 BC) was a military commander and politician from the middle period of the Roman Republic, who became Consul in 298 BC. He was also appointed Dictator in 263 BC.

A member of the Plebeian gens Fulvia, Centumalus is first mentioned in 302 BC as serving as a legatus under the dictator Marcus Valerius Corvus in the war against the Etruscans. Elected consul in 298 BC, he and his colleague Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus were soon dispatched to deal with the outbreak of the Third Samnite War. The accounts of this year’s fighting, however, are contradictory. According to Livy, while Scipio was dispatched northward to battle the Etruscans, Fulvius was sent south to fight on the Samnite front. He defeated a Samnite army outside of Bovianum, from which he advanced to the town and captured it after a short siege. Centumalus followed this up with the capture of the town of Aufidena. Returning to Rome, the Senate awarded him a triumph. However, the Fasti Triumphales have him awarded triumphs for victories in both Samnium and Etruria, while Frontinus states he was fighting at Lucania. To complicate matters further, his colleague Scipio’s epitaph states that it was Scipio who won victories in Samnium, most likely during this year. According to the historian S. P. Oakley, Livy was probably confused about the theatre of war, and in fact Centumalus won his victories against the Sabines.

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