 The historian Polybius records that both he and Servilius died fighting bravely at the Battle of Cannae.However, there was a Marcus Atilius Regulus who was Praetor Urbanus (and later also Peregrinus), but it is thought that this person is actually a textual mis-reading of the name Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.It is unlikely that the aged, former consul would become a Praetor again three years after Cannae.