or Flamininus, (T. Q.) a celebrated Roman raised to the consulship in the year of Rome 554, though under the age of 30. He was trained in the art of war against Hannibal; and he showed himself capable in every respect to discharge with honour the great office with which he was entrusted. He was sent at the head of the Roman troops against Philip king of Macedonia, and in his expedition he met with uncommon success. The Greeks gradually declared themselves his firmest supporters; and he totally defeated Philip on the confines of Epirus, and made all Locris, Phocis, and Thessaly, tributary to the Roman power. He granted peace to the conquered monarch, and proclaimed all Greece free and independent at the Isthmian games. This celebrated action procured the name of Patrons of Greece to the Romans, and insensibly paved their way to universal dominion. Flaminus behaved among them with the greatest policy; by his ready compliance to their national customs and prejudices, he gained uncommon popularity, and received the name of father and deliverer of Greece. He was afterwards Flaminius sent ambassador to king Prusias, who had given refuge to Hannibal; and there his prudence and artifice hastened out of the world a man who had long been the terror of the Romans. Flaminus was found dead in his bed, after a life spent in the greatest glory, in which he had imitated with success the virtues of his model Scipio.

Flaminus, or Flaminid, (Mark Anthony), one of the best Latin poets in the 16th century, of Imola in Italy, son and grandson of very learned men. The pope had chosen him secretary to the council in 1545; but he refused that employment, because, favouring the new opinions, he would not employ his pen in an assembly where he knew these opinions were to be condemned.—He paraphrased 30 of the psalms in Latin verse, and also wrote notes on the psalms; and some letters and poems which are esteemed. He died at Rome in 1550.