Lucius Valerius Flaccus (Consul 152 BC)

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Lucius Valerius Flaccus († 152 BC ) came from the Roman patrician family of the Valerians and was 152 BC. Chr. Consul .

Life

According to the Fasti Capitolini, Lucius Valerius Flaccus had a father of the same name, while his grandfather used the prenomen Publius . Accordingly, he was a son of the consul from 195 BC. BC , who was friends with the well-known censor Cato the Elder .

163 BC BC Flaccus acted together with Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Lupus as a curular aedile . His further cursus honorum to his consulate is uncertain. Possibly he was with his colleague from the aedility 160 or 159 BC. BC Praetor , as could be deduced from a fragmentary dedicatory inscription of a Temple of Aesculapius, which was copied around 1500 but has since disappeared .

Flaccus did not get to the highest state office until 152 BC. BC, perhaps with the support of his more respected colleague Marcus Claudius Marcellus , who now held the consulate for the third time and whose family had long had good relations with that of Flaccus. Flaccus died while he was still in office. Due to a threatening omen, all magistrates are said to have resigned this year. It is uncertain whether for this reason apparently no suffect consul took the place of the deceased Flaccus.

Flaccus' son was probably the consul of the same name from 131 BC. Chr.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Friedrich Münzer : Valerius 174). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VIII A, 1, Stuttgart 1955, Col. 20.
  2. ↑ Didascalia on Terence , Heautontimoroumenos .
  3. ↑ CIL 6, 7 = Hermann Dessau , Inscriptiones Latinae selectae 3836; on this Friedrich Münzer: Valerius 174). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VIII A, 1, Stuttgart 1955, Col. 20 f.
  4. ↑ Fasti Capitolini ad annum 152 BC. Chr .; Iulius Obsequens 18; among others
  5. ↑ Fasti Capitolini .
  6. ↑ Obsequens Jan.
personal data
SURNAME Valerius Flaccus, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flaccus, Lucius Valerius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 152 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC BC or 2nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 152 BC Chr.