Marcus Publicius Malleolus was a Roman statesman who served as Consul.Marcus Terentius Varro, De lingua Latina, V, 158
He built, with his brother, a temple dedicated to the goddess Flora and instituted the Floralia.Tassilo Schmitt, The New Pauly's Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity, Vol.10 p.580 He was elected Consul in 232 BC with Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. They served during a transition period between the First and the Second Punic War.Zonaras, VIII, 18, 13
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Bibliography William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, Vol.2 p. 908 n.1