His daughter, Claudia, married Pacuvius Calavius, the chief magistrate of Capua in 217 BC.
In 215 BC, he was made praetor, and lead the survivors of the defeated army to Sicily, where his efforts to detach Hieronymus, the grandson of Hiero II, from his connection with the Carthaginians, were unsuccessful.
[3] He remained in Sicily the following year as propraetor and legatus to Marcus Claudius Marcellus,[4][5] having charge of the fleet and the camp at Leontini.
[6] In 212 BC, he was elected consul, and in conjunction with his colleague Quintus Fulvius Flaccus undertook the siege of Capua.
In the battle against Hannibal's forces before Capua, he received a wound from whose effects he died shortly after the surrender of the city.