Publius Valerius Potitus Poplicola

Publius Valerius Potitus Poplicola was a Roman politician and general in the early days of the Roman Republic .

Family and origin

Publius Valerius Potitus Poplicola came from the gens Valeria , which was one of the oldest and, until the late Imperial period, one of the most influential patrician families in Rome . Along with the Aemilians , Claudians , Cornelians and the Fabians, she was one of the five so-called gentes maiores , who played a dominant role throughout the Roman Republic and also in the early imperial period. Both his father and his grandfather were named Lucius Valerius.

Life

Publius Valerius Potitus Poplicola was at a time of greatest threat to Rome from the Etruscans and Gauls at the beginning of the 4th century BC. A total of six consular tribunals (tribunus militum consulari potestate) , an office that was held in place of consuls as the highest state authority in times of need . He was elected to this office for the first time in 386 when he defeated the city of Antium with his more famous colleague Marcus Furius Camillus , the conqueror of the Etruscan city of Veii . For the second time he was born in 384 BC. BC, for the third time in the year 380 consular tribune. In his fourth consular tribunate in 377 BC . Was BC Lucius Aemilius Mamertinus one of his colleagues. With him he defeated the Aequer and Volscians at Satricum . For the fifth and sixth time he was finally for the years 370 and 367 BC. Elected to the office of consular tribune.

literature

• Hans Volkmann : Valerius 308. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VIII A, 1, Stuttgart 1955, Col. 194.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Titus Livius , Ab urbe condita 6,6.
2. ↑ Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 6,27,2; 27.4.
3. ↑ Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 6,32,3.
4. ^ Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita VI, 36.3 and VI, 42.