title: Laelius
text: # Laelius
  
  Laelius is a name that can refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Gaius Laelius, a Roman statesman, who was consul in 190 BC and friend of Scipio Africanus
  * Gaius Laelius Sapiens (consul of 140 BC), a Roman statesman, son of the above, who was consul in 140 BC, and was friend to Scipio's adoptive grandson Scipio Aemilianus
  * Decimus Laelius (tribune of the plebs 54 BC), one of the prosecutors Cicero opposed in the defense speech Pro Flacco
  * Laelius Socinus, a 16th-century humanist and reformer
  
  ## Literature
  
  * Laelius de Amicitia, a philosophical dialog by Cicero on friendship, which is based on the second Gaius Laelius and his relationships with various great men
  * Sir Robert Pipon Marett, a Jersey poet who used the pen name Laelius
  
  ## Biology
  
  * Laelius (wasp), genus of wasp from the subfamily Epyrinae, family Bethylidae
  