Lucius Junius (C. f. C. n.) Pullus (died 249 or 248 BCE) was a politician and general of the Roman Republic. He was consul in 249 BCE together with Publius Claudius Pulcher. He and his consular colleague fought in the ongoing First Punic War.
After the disastrous defeat of Publius Claudius Pulcher's fleet at the Battle of Drepana, where his fleet was almost completely destroyed by the Carthaginian navy, Pulcher was recalled to Rome and fined for his incompetence. Subsequently, Pullus' own fleet was also destroyed by a storm and harassment by Carthaginian vessels. According to the chronicles, his dismay at losing the fleet led Lucius Junius Pullus to take his own life rather than returning to Rome in shame as his colleague had done.1
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- Polybius i. 52-55; Diodorus Siculus Frag. XXIV. 1; Eutropius ii. 15. S. 26, Orosius iv. 10; Valerius Maximus I. 4. § 3; Cicero de Div. i. 16, ii. 8, 33, de Nat. Deor. ii. 3; Censorinus Die Nat. 17.