. the plebs a 306 DUILIUS DYABDANES second time, 449. (Liv. ii. 58, 61, iii. 52-64;Diod. xi. 68 ; Dionys. xi. 46.)—2. K., one of thedecemvirs, 450, on whose overthrow he wentinto voluntary exile (Liv. iii. 58.)—3. C, con-sul 260, with Cn. Cornelius Scipio Asina, in thefirst Punic War. In this year the Romansbuilt their first fleet, using for their model aCarthaginian vessel which had been thrown onthe coast of Italy. The command of this fleetwas given to Scipio, who was defeated bythe Carthaginians off Lipara. ThereuponDuilius was en
. the plebs a 306 DUILIUS DYABDANES second time, 449. (Liv. ii. 58, 61, iii. 52-64;Diod. xi. 68 ; Dionys. xi. 46.)—2. K., one of thedecemvirs, 450, on whose overthrow he wentinto voluntary exile (Liv. iii. 58.)—3. C, con-sul 260, with Cn. Cornelius Scipio Asina, in thefirst Punic War. In this year the Romansbuilt their first fleet, using for their model aCarthaginian vessel which had been thrown onthe coast of Italy. The command of this fleetwas given to Scipio, who was defeated bythe Carthaginians off Lipara. ThereuponDuilius was entrusted with the command,and as he perceived the disadvantages underwhich the clumsy ships of the Romans werelabouring, he devised the grappling irons bymeans of which the enemys ships might bedrawn towards his, and the sea-fight thuschanged into a land-fight. By this means hegained a brilliant victory over the Carthaginianfleet near Mylae, and then prosecuted the warin Sicily with success, relieving Egesta, andiaking Macella by assault. On his return to. Columna Rostrata of Duilius. (From a copy in Museum of the Capitol.) • Rome, Duilius celebrated a splendid triumph,for it was the first naval victory that the Bo-mans had ever gained, and the memory of itwas perpetuated by a column which was erectedin the forum, and adorned with the beaks of theconquered ships (Columna Bostrata). Thiscolumn was dug out of the ground in the 16thcentury, but the inscription upon it is not ofthe time of Duilius. It has affected archaismsside by side with later forms, and must be as-signed to the 1st century It is probablethat the column had no inscription, or a verybrief one, and that the extant words wereplaced on it when it was restored by Claudius(G. I. L. i. p. 40). Duilius was further re-warded for this victory by being permitted,whenever he returned home from a banquet atnight, to be accompanied by a torch and aflute-player. (Pol. i. 22 fi.; Diod. xvii. 44 ;Front. Strateg. iii. 2
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