Marcus Valerius Messalla (Consul 188 BC)

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Marcus Valerius Messalla was a Roman politician in the 2nd century BC. BC, consul of the year 188 BC With Gaius Livius Salinator .

He was the son of Manlius Valerius Messalla , the consul from 226 BC. Messalla probably dressed in 195 BC. The office of the Curulischen aedile , in the year 193 BC. He was praetor peregrinus .

His first attempt to be elected as consul failed in 190 BC. BC, but succeeded in the following year, the election to the consulate for 188 BC. To win. As consul he received the province of Pisa and Liguria, his counterpart the neighboring Gaul. Nothing worth mentioning is reported about his term of office.

In 181 BC He took part in the campaign of the proconsul Lucius Aemilius Paullus against the Ligurians and was one of three envoys to the court of the king of Macedonia , alongside Gaius Laelius and Sextius Digitius .

After the death of Lucius Aemilius Papus he was born in 172 BC. As his successor member of the priestly college of the Decemviri Sacris Faciundis , to whom he over the year 167 BC. Also belonged to.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 1: 509 BC - 100 BC Case Western Reserve University Press, Cleveland, Ohio 1951. Reprinted unchanged 1968. (Philological Monographs. Ed. Of the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, Part 1), pp. 365-367.
  2. ↑ Livy on the elections to the praetor in 34,54,2 and on the distribution of tasks 34,55,6.
  3. ↑ Livy 37,47,7.
  4. ↑ Livy 38,35,7.
  5. ↑ Livy 41:22, 3.
  6. ↑ Friedrich Münzer : Valerius 252) . 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. 127.

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SURNAME Valerius Messalla, Marcus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Messalla, Marcus Valerius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 188 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 167 BC Chr.