Publius Sextilius

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Publius Sextilius was a Roman praetor (92 BC?) and governor of Africa during the civil wars between Sulla and Marius.

As propraetor in 88 B.C., he refused Marius and his followers asylum in Africa.

Plutarch presents a highly colored version of how Sextilius rejected Marius and furnishes a moral: The Roman governor of Africa at this time was Sextilius, a man who had received neither good nor ill at the hands of Marius, but whom, as it was expected, pity alone would move to give him aid.