Q. n. (or Ai. n) Cerretanus, consul in 323 and 319 BC, during the Second Samnite War. He triumphed over the Frentani in the latter year, and in 315 was magister equitum to the dictator Quintus Fabius Maximus Rullianus. Engaging the enemy without first obtaining the dictator's permission, he slew the Samnite general, before falling in battle. Manius Aulius, prefect of the allied soldiers under the command of Marcus Claudius Marcellus in 208 BC, during the Second Punic War, was slain in the battle against Hannibal. See also List of Roman gentes References Bibliography Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica (Library of History). Titus Livius (Livy), History of Rome. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, ed., Little, Brown and Company, Boston (1849). George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. VIII (1897). T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, American Philological Association (1952). Attilio Degrassi, Fasti Capitolini recensuit, praefatus est, indicibus instruxit, Turin, 1954. Stephen P. Oakley, A Commentary on Livy: Books VI–X, Volume II, Books VI-VIII, Oxford University Press, 1998. Roman gentes