Gaius Valerius Laevinus

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Gaius Valerius Laevinus (* around 220 BC; † after 169 BC) came from the Roman patrician family of the Valerians and was 176 BC. Chr. Suffect consul .

Life

Gaius Valerius Laevinus was a son of the consul from 210 BC. BC, Marcus Valerius Laevinus . Two of his brothers are known by name: one, whose name was like his father Marcus Valerius Laevinus , was among others 182 BC. Chr. Praetor inter cives et peregrinos , while the second, Publius Valerius Laevinus , only one mention of the Roman historian Livy is known, after which he shared with his two brothers v 200th Arranged four-day funeral games for his late father. Furthermore, Gaius Valerius Laevinus was a half-brother of the consul from 189 BC. BC, Marcus Fulvius Nobilior , since his mother was the consul's second wife from 210 BC. BC, Marcus Valerius Laevinus.

After Marcus Fulvius Nobilior in his consulate in 189 BC. He was entrusted with the leadership of the fight against the Aitolians , he was accompanied by Gaius Valerius Laevinus to the siege of the Ambrakia belonging to the Aitolian League . When the Aitolians started peace talks with the Romans, they received in Valerius an ardent advocate of their interests at the consul. The fact that Valerius appeared as their patron was due to the fact that his father had once established a friendly relationship with the Aitolians. Fulvius then granted his war opponents very advantageous conditions. Ten years later, 179 BC. BC, Valerius was elected praetor and made Sardinia a province. That he was 177 BC BC became praetor a second time and this time Gaul was in charge, is probably an unhistorical message from Livy.

When the one consul of the year 176 BC BC, Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Hispallus , died soon after taking office, Valerius was appointed suffect consul in the by-election led by the second consul, Quintus Petillius Spurinus . He then moved to the northern Italian theater of war, where the Romans fought against the Ligurians , and joined the troops led by Petillius and the proconsul Gaius Claudius Pulcher . Since the 41st book of the historical work of Livius is only incomplete and Valerius's share in the fighting had just been in one of these gaps, nothing more is known about it. After the Triumphal Acts, Valerius was not granted a triumph over the Ligurians, so apparently he had not achieved any major successes in this war in which Petillius had lost his life. The augurs also sought to prevent Valerius from leading the elections for the next year on his own at the end of his tenure as suffect consul.

174 BC BC Valerius belonged to a five-member Roman delegation to Greece, which tried in Delphi to settle disputes among the Aitolians. The ambassadors then failed to speak to the Macedonian king Perseus . When they began in 173 BC When they returned to Rome BC , they reported that Perseus was armed with armaments for a military conflict. In the same year 173 BC Together with Gnaeus Lutatius Cerco , Quintus Baebius Sulca , Marcus Cornelius Mammula and Marcus Caecilius Denter , Valerius undertook another legation trip to the Greek East in order to sound out the conditions there before the looming war with Macedonia. That Valerius returned home after his visit to Greece and that only his fellow envoys continued their journey to the Ptolemaic Empire and then to Syria and Pergamum is probably wrong; he was probably only called back from Asia Minor to report his investigations. In Alexandria the envoys assured the court of Ptolemy VI. that they had come to renew friendship. When Valerius returned to Rome, he was accompanied by a prominent resident of Brundisium , Herennius Rammius, who told the senate that he had been bribed by the Macedonian king to poison ambassadors.

The last time Valerius appears in 169 BC. BC in the sources when the candidacy he submitted for censorship was unsuccessful. His death is likely to have occurred not long afterwards.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Titus Livius 39:56, 5; 40, 1, 1.
  2. ↑ Livy 31:50 , 4.
  3. ↑ Polybios 21, 29, 10ff .; Livy 38, 9, 8.
  4. ^ Livy 40, 44, 2 and 40, 44, 7.
  5. ↑ Livy 41, 8, 2f.
  6. ↑ Fasti Capitolini ; Livy 41, 16, 5 and 41, 17, 5.
  7. ↑ Livy 41:18, 6.
  8. ↑ Hans Volkmann : Valerius 208). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VIII A, 1, Stuttgart 1955, column 44.
  9. ↑ Livy 41, 18, 15f.
  10. ↑ Livy 41:25, 5; 41, 27, 4; 42, 2, 1f.
  11. ↑ Livius 42, 6, 4f.
  12. ↑ Livy 42, 17, 1.
  13. ↑ Walter Otto , Zur Geschichte der Zeit des 6 Ptolemaios , 1934, p. 36.
  14. ↑ Livy 42, 6, 4.
  15. ↑ Livy 42:17.
  16. ↑ Livy 43:14, 1.
personal data
SURNAME Valerius Laevinus, Gaius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laevinus, Gaius Valerius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman suffect consul (176 BC)
DATE OF BIRTH around 220 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 169 BC Chr.