Manius Valerius Maximus Corvinus Messalla

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Manius Valerius Maximus Corvinus Messalla was a Roman consul in 263 BC. And censor 252 BC BC, during the First Punic War .

In his consulate he and his colleague Manius Otacilius Crassus achieved a brilliant victory over the Carthaginians and Syracusans . The honor of the triumphal procession was granted to him alone. His help for Messana brought him the Cognomen Messalla , which was run in his family for almost 800 years. To commemorate his victory, he had it depicted on the wall of the Hostilia Curia , the first example of a historical fresco in Rome .

In 252 BC He was censor together with Publius Sempronius Sophus . The censors excluded 16 senators from the Senate and demoted 400 knights for their disobedience during the war in Sicily.

He is also said to have brought the first sundial from Catania to Rome, where it was placed on a pillar in the Roman Forum .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polybios I 16.1
  2. ↑ On the official career of Maximus Messalla compare: T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 1: 509 BC - 100 BC Cleveland, Ohio: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1951. Reprinted unchanged 1968. (Philological Monographs. Ed. By the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, Part 1), for the Consulate 263 BC . Chr. P. 203f; for censorship 252 BC Chr. P. 212
  3. ↑ Polybios I 16-17
  4. ↑ Friedrich Münzer : Valerius 247) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classical antiquity . Second row. Volume 8.1: Valerius Fabrianus to P. Vergilius Maro. (RE VIII A, 1) Stuttgart: Alfred Druckermüller Verlag, 1955, Sp. 125

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SURNAME Maximus Corvinus Messalla, Manius Valerius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul and censor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 3rd century BC Chr.