Titus Quinctius Flamininus

Titus Quinctius Flamininus
Coin of Titus Quinctius Flamininus. British Museum.
Consul of the Roman Republic
In office 198 BC – 198 BC
Preceded by	Lucius Cornelius Lentulus and Publius Villius Tappulus
Succeeded by	Gaius Cornelius Cethegus and Quintus Minucius Rufus
Censor of the Roman Republic
In office 189 BC – 189 BC
Preceded by	Sextus Aelius Paetus Catus and Gaius Cornelius Cethegus
Succeeded by	Lucius Valerius Flaccus and Cato the Elder
Personal details
Born	c. 229 BC. Rome, Roman Republic
Died	174 BC Rome

Titus Quinctius Flamininus (/ˌflæmɪˈnaɪnəs/ FLAM-i-NY-nəs; c. 229 BC – c. 174 BC) was a Roman politician and general instrumental in the Roman conquest of Greece.

A member of the patrician gens Quinctia, and brother to Lucius Quinctius Flamininus, he served as a military tribune in the Second Punic war and in 205 BC he was appointed propraetor in Tarentum. He was a curule aedile in Rome in 203 BC and a quaestor in 199 BC. He became consul in 198 BC, despite being only about thirty years old, younger than the constitutional age required to serve in that position. As Livy records, two tribunes, Marcus Fulvius and Manius Curius, publicly opposed his candidacy for consulship, as he was just a quaestor, but the Senate overrode the opposition and he was elected along with Sextus Aelius Paetus.