Quintus Fulvius Flaccus (suffect consul 180 BC)

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Quintus Fulvius Flaccus came from the Roman plebeian family of the Fulvians and was 180 BC. Chr. Suffect consul .

Life

According to the testimony of the Fasti Capitolini , Quintus Fulvius Flaccus was the son of a Gnaeus Fulvius Flaccus , who is identified with the praetor who died in 212 BC. Chr. Suffered a defeat against Hannibal and therefore had to go into exile.

After the Roman consul Titus Quinctius Flamininus in 198 BC. After the first battles with the Macedonians in the 3rd century BC and a personal conversation he had with Philip V had come to nothing, it was agreed that the envoy of Philip V and the Greek states allied with Rome should speak to the Roman Senate . The task of sending the envoy in the winter of 198/197 BC To escort the consul to Rome and forward a report to the consul, three of his confidants took over: In addition to Appius Claudius Nero and a Quintus Fabius, there was also a Quintus Fulvius , whose identification with the here discussed Quintus Fulvius Flaccus is believed by the ancient historian Friedrich Münzer to be probable. The Senate decided to continue the war, and Flamininus decisively defeated Philip V in June 197 BC. At the battle of Kynoskephalai .

189 BC BC Flaccus exercised the office of a plebeian aedile . Two years later he administered the island of Sardinia as praetor . 181 BC He was the legate of the proconsul Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus when he was fighting the Ligurians .

After Flaccus had already appeared three times in vain as a candidate for the highest office in the state, he was elected in 180 BC. After the death of his stepfather, Gaius Calpurnius Piso, who was elected consul for this year, he was re-elected as suffect consul. Allegedly Flaccus' mother Quarta Hostilia disposed of her (second) husband Piso by poison in order to get her son to the consulate. After an attack by Flaccus, 7,000 Apuans surrendered , whom the suffect consul relocated to Samnium .

A son of Quintus Fulvius Flaccus was Gaius Fulvius Flaccus , who lived in 134 BC. Was consul, another probably Servius Fulvius Flaccus , who held the highest office in 135 BC. Clad. These last two consuls perhaps organized funeral games in honor of their father, as the German ancient historian Conrad Cichorius concludes from a statement by the Roman poet Gaius Lucilius .

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Fasti Capitolini : Quintus Fulvius Flaccus Cn. f. M. n . ; on this F. Münzer, RE VII, 1, Sp. 246.
  2. ↑ Polybios 18, 10, 8; Livius 32, 36, 10 (after Polybios); on this F. Münzer, RE VII, 1, Sp. 246.
  3. ↑ Livy 38, 35, 6.
  4. ↑ Livy 38, 42, 4 and 6.
  5. ↑ Livy 40, 27, 7.
  6. ↑ Fasti Capitolini; Livy 40, 37, 5f.
  7. ↑ Livy 40, 41, 3f.
  8. ↑ Gaius Lucilius 4, 149 ed. Marx; on this Conrad Cichorius : Investigations on Lucilius. Weidmann, Berlin 1908, pp. 262-264 .
personal data
SURNAME Fulvius flaccus, Quintus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flaccus, Quintus Fulvius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman suffect consul 180 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century BC Chr.