Gaius Laelius Maior
C. Laelius Maior was a close friend of P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus and accompanied him on his campaigns during the second Punic war. In Spain, he commanded the fleet at Carthagena, and the left wing of the army at Baecula. He made a raid into Africa while Scipio was preparing for the African invasion on Sicily. Later he defeated the Numidian king Syphax and took the city of Cirta. At Zama, he commanded the Roman cavalry. Laelius was Quaestor in 552, Plebian Aedile in 557, Praetor in 558 and Consul in 564. The following year he took Gaul as his province and in 580 served on an embassy to the Macedonian king Perseus, and to some Transalpine Gallic nations in 584.

Gaius Laelius Sapiens.
C. Laelius Sapiens was the son of Laelius Maior and a friend of P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus. He accompanied him to Africa during the third Punic war where he commanded the storming of Carthage. He acquired the cognomen Sapiens because he participated in philosophical debate with contemporary Greek philosophers and was involved with the embassy of philosophers sent from Athens to the Senate in 599. He was tribune in 603, Praetor in 609 and Consul in 614.