Marcus Valerius Maximus Messalla
Marcus Valerius Maximus Messalla was a Roman politician in the last third of the 3rd century BC. Chr.
He was the son of the consul from 263 BC. BC, Manius Valerius Maximus Corvinus Messalla . Only the consulate in 226 BC is of his career . Known that he dressed together with Lucius Apustius Fullo . In the Second Punic War he encountered 210/09 BC. BC as a fleet prefect ( praefectus classis ) to Utica and devastated the coast there. He reported to the consul Marcus Valerius Laevinus of an impending threat to Sicily from the Carthaginians . As Laevinus the Senate the nomination Messallas the dictator suggested that the Senate rejected this request, after which Quintus Fulvius Flaccus was appointed. No further information has been passed on about Messalla's life.
He gave up the Cognomen Maximus inherited from his father . His son Marcus Valerius Messalla was born in 188 BC. Chr. Consul.
literature
- Titus Livius , Roman History, Book 27.5.
- Friedrich Münzer : Valerius 251) . 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. 126
Individual evidence
- ^ 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), pp. 229f
- ↑ Livy XXVII 5.1 and 8-15
- ↑ Livy XVII 5.15
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| SURNAME | Valerius Maximus Messalla, Marcus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maximus Messalla, Marcus Valerius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman consul 226 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 226 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 209 BC Chr. |