He was one of the two consuls of 261 BCE, serving with Titus Otacilius Crassus.
Together they fought in the ongoing First Punic War; they campaigned in Sicily.
[1] Before sailing to Sicily they strengthened the coastal defences of Italy against attacks by Hannibal Gisco, a Carthaginian admiral sent to raid the Tyrrhenian coast.
The consuls besieged Mytistraton, but were eventually driven off by Hamilcar, the new commander of Carthage's Sicilian army, who inflicted a defeat on them at Thermae near Palermo.
They returned to Italy were they started building a fleet.