Servius Fulvius Flaccus

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Servius Fulvius Flaccus came from the Roman plebeian family of the Fulvians and was 135 BC. Chr. Consul .

Life

According to two surviving inscriptions, Servius Fulvius Flaccus was the son of a Quintus Fulvius Flaccus , probably the suffect consul from 180 BC. Chr. Another possibility is however, that he is the son of v consul of 179. Chr. Was.

Flaccus was elected consul together with Quintus Calpurnius Piso . In Illyria he was militarily successful against the tribe of the Ardeier or Vardaean who had penetrated Roman territory.

When the tribune Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus in 133 BC At the beginning of the 4th century BC he was unable to carry out his planned far-reaching agricultural reform due to the intercession of another tribune, Marcus Octavius , and his supporters and opponents were increasingly attacking one another, prominent men, including a consular Fulvius , urged him to forego violent measures and instead bring the matter to the Senate to submit what Gracchus responded to. According to the ancient historian Friedrich Münzer , this consular Fulvius could be identical to the Flaccus treated here. Since the majority of Gracchus's opponents predominated in the Senate, Gracchus soon resorted to the serious measure of having his reluctant colleague Octavius ​​deposed by a plebiscite.

Flaccus was probably also active as a speaker. Nothing is known about its end.

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ Inscription from Tifata : CIL 1, 635 = Ephemeris epigraphica VIII 476 = Hermann Dessau , Inscriptiones Latinae selectae 22; Senate Consultation from Priene : Inscriptions from Priene 41 = Wilhelm Dittenberger , Sylloge inscriptionum Graecarum , 3rd edition, 688.
  2. ↑ F. Münzer, RE VII, 1, col. 248.
  3. ^ Livius , periochae 56; Appian , Illyrica 10.
  4. ↑ Plutarch , Tiberius Gracchus 11, 1f .; on this F. Münzer, RE VII, 1, Sp. 248.
  5. ↑ Cicero , Brutus 81.
personal data
SURNAME Fulvius Flaccus, Servius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flaccus, Servius Fulvius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul 135 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century BC BC or 1st century BC Chr.