Marcus Valerius Corvus

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Marcus Valerius Maximus Corvus (instead of Corvus partly also Corvinus ; * around 371 BC; † allegedly around 271 BC) was a Roman folk hero whose list of honor is astonishingly long. The annalist Valerius Antias probably ascribed some offices to him that had actually been held by others, perhaps namesakes.

349 BC As a military tribune , Valerius defeated a giant Gauls in a duel, with the help of a crow or a raven. He therefore received the cognomen Corvus ( Latin "raven"). The following year, at the age of 23, he became consul with Marcus Popillius Laenas . 346 BC He was again consul and defeated the Volscians . For this, and especially for taking Satricum , he received a triumph . His counterpart that year was Gaius Poetelius Libo Visolus . Three years later, Valerius held the consulate for the third time and defeated the Samnites together with his fellow consul Aulus Cornelius Cossus Arvina , for which he was again honored with a triumphal procession. 342 BC He was a dictator ; during his fourth consulate, which he held together with Marcus Atilius Regulus Calenus , he conquered in 335 BC. The city of Cales and was awarded a third triumph. Twice, 332 and 320 BC BC, he headed the consular elections as Interrex .

Other offices that he held in old age are actually probably attributable to his son Marcus Valerius Maximus (Corvinus): 301 BC. As a dictator, he is said to have caused the mutinous Roman occupation in Capua to give way through the lex Valeria de provocatione . This law was introduced the following year and confirmed the previous legislation that no Roman citizen could be chastised or killed without giving him the opportunity to provoke . 300 BC He was elected consul for the fifth time together with the homo novus Quintus Appuleius Pansa and defeated the Aequer , also in the following year 299 BC. The Etruscans as a suffect consul . He was a hundred years old.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Dionysios , Antiquitates 15,1,2.
  2. ↑ Titus Livius 7:26; compare: T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC - 100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 1, ZDB -ID 418575-4 ). American Philological Association, New York NY 1951, pp. 129 f., (Unchanged reprint 1968).
  3. ^ Marcus Tullius Cicero , Cato maior de senectute 60.
personal data
SURNAME Valerius Corvus, Marcus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Valerius Maximus Corvus, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION roman hero
DATE OF BIRTH around 371 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH around 271 BC Chr.