Marcus Valerius (Consul 505 BC)

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Marcus Valerius Volusi filius was supposedly 505 BC. Chr. Consul of the young Roman Republic . He was the brother of the (also legendary) Publius Valerius Poplicola and belonged to the patrician dynasty of the Valerians . His epithet Volusus , handed down in the fasti consulares, is not documented elsewhere. The ancient biographer Plutarch reports that Valerius had 509 BC. BC prevented the consul Marcus Horatius Pulvillus from carrying out the consecration of a temple to Jupiter in order to preserve the honor of his brother.

He allegedly took part in the war against Porsenna with Titus Lucretius , but is said to have been carried out of the battle wounded (according to Dionysius of Halicarnassus ). This episode is missing from Plutarch.

Both the fasti triumphales and the historians Livius , Plutarch and Dionysius agree that Valerius held a triumphal procession after defeating the Sabines ; only Plutarch attributes this triumphal procession to Valerius, while the other sources also attribute it to his official colleague. Plutarch and Dionysios report that Valerius is said to have received a plot of land and the costs for building the house from the Roman township, which had not previously been common in Rome.

There are reports from Livy and Dionysius about his death in the Battle of Lake Regillus after an embassy to the Latins, which, however, tend to be legendary.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. Of the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, Part 1), p. 7

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SURNAME Valerius, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul
DATE OF BIRTH before 509 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 505 BC Chr.