Lucius Valerius Poplicola (Consular Tribune)
Lucius Valerius Poplicola was a Roman politician and general in the early days of the Roman Republic . The year of birth and death are not recorded.
Lucius Valerius Poplicola was a member of the gens Valeria , one of the five gentes maiores among the patrician Roman families who lived until 366 BC. Were the sole holders of political power in Rome . He himself was the son and grandson of two Valerians of the same name, the grandfather Lucius Valerius Poplicola possibly 509 BC. Was one of the first two, semi-legendary Roman consuls .
At the time of the greatest threat to the Roman republic from the wars against Veii , the Volscians and the Gauls , the republic renounced the choice of consuls as the highest state authority and instead appointed so-called consular tribunes , which, as designated military personnel, primarily defended the city and of their territory. One of these experts was Lucius Valerius Poplicola, who held the office of consular tribune ( tribunus militum consulari potestate ) five times . For the first time he was in 394 BC. Elected to this office. His second term of office fell in the year 389, his third in the year 387 BC. BC, the year of the greatest threat to Rome from the Gauls. The fourth time he became consular tribune in 383 BC. For the fifth and last time he held the office in the year 380 BC. Chr. Titus Livius names a Lucius Valerius also as Magister equitum of the dictator Marcus Furius Camillus . Whether it is Lucius Valerius Poplicola or the multiple consul and consular tribune Lucius Valerius Potitus is uncertain.
literature
- Christian Müller: Valerius I, 42. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12,1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996-2015, ISBN 3-476-01470-3 , Sp. 1103.
- T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates of the Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC-100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Number XV, Volume 1). American Philological Association, New York 1951.
- Hans Volkmann : Valerius 298. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VIII A, 1, Stuttgart 1955, Col. 176 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Titus Livius , Ab urbe condita 5,26,3.
- ↑ Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 6,1,8.
- ↑ Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 6,5,7.
- ↑ Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 6,21,1.
- ↑ Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 6,27,2
- ↑ Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 5,48,5.
- ^ Christian Müller: Valerius I, 42. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12,1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996-2015, ISBN 3-476-01470-3 , Sp. 1103.
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| SURNAME | Valerius Poplicola, Lucius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman politician and military |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th century BC Chr. |