Lucius Valerius Potitus (Consul 393 BC)
Lucius Valerius Potitus was a Roman statesman and general of the early republic .
origin
Lucius Valerius Potitus came from one of the most important ancient Roman patrician families , the gens Valeria , who played a leading role in the republican era from the beginning until 44 BC. 66 BC provided consuls and was of influence and importance for a long time even in the imperial era . The branch of the Valerii Potiti also provided several leading statesmen and generals in the early days of the republic. One of them was Lucius Valerius Potitus, who was a consular tribune five times and consul twice.
Political and military career
Lucius Valerius Potitus was born for the year 414 BC. Elected consular tribune for the first time. At that time Rome was at war with most of its immediate neighbors, who bitterly resisted the republic's urge to expand. In such times of war, no consuls were elected to head the state, but military experts who were particularly suitable for waging war, the consular tribunes, usually six in number. Valerius Potitus must therefore have been an excellent troop leader, because he was also named for the years 406, 403, 401 and 398 BC. Elected consular tribune. He attacked Antium in 406 , besieged Anxur, today's Terracina , in 401 and devastated it in 398 BC. The area of the Faliscian city of Falerii .
Also in the year 398 BC. Chr. Was Lucius Valerius Potitus by the Senate as a participant in an embassy to Delphi sent to the local oracle to be consulted. In 397 he then held the office of Interrex . 394 BC He was supposed to travel to Delphi again as envoy, but was captured by pirates on the way there and taken to Lipara , but freed by Timasitheos and brought safely to Delphi. Back in Rome, he was born in 393 BC. Elected consul, but soon resigned from this office. Nevertheless, he was named for the year 392 BC. Re-elected consul. In this second consulate he headed the ludi Magni . In addition, the Senate granted him a triumphal procession for the victory over the Aequer . Soon afterwards he resigned from the consulate for health reasons and became Interrex again. Allegedly he was after 390 BC. Still magister equitum of the dictator Marcus Furius Camillus and 387 BC. Again Interrex, but this information is questioned by Livy.
swell
- Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita , volumes 4 and 5
- Plutarch, Camillus
literature
- Hans Volkmann : Valerius I 58. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 5, Stuttgart 1975, column 1109.
- Christian Müller: Valerius [I 50]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/1, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01482-7 , Sp. 1105.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Titus Livius 4,49,1.
- ↑ Livy 4,58,6; 5,1,2; 5,10,1; 5.14.5.
- ↑ Livy 4,59,3.
- ↑ Livy 5:12, 6.
- ↑ Plutarch , Camillus 4,6.
- ↑ Livy 5,28,2ff.
- ↑ Degrassi, Fasti Capitolini 38; Livy 5.29.2; Diodor 14.99.1; 15.8.1.
- ↑ Livy 5,31,2ff.
- ↑ Livy 5.48.5; 6.5.6.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Valerius Potitus, Lucius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Potitus, Lucius Valerius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman statesman and general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th century BC Chr. |