Lucius Valerius Flaccus (consul 195 BC)

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Lucius Valerius Flaccus (died 180 BC) was a Roman politician and general. He was consul in 195 BC and censor in 183 BC, serving both times with his friend Cato the Elder, whom he brought to the notice of the Roman political elite.

Family

Flaccus was a

Cursus Honorum all the way to praetor
, though not consul.

Career

The patrician Flaccus became a friend, political patron, and ally of the young

plebeian senator Marcus Porcius Cato, later called Cato the Elder, during the earlier years of the Second Punic War. Flaccus is possibly the Valerius Flaccus who was a military tribune in 212 BC, serving under the consuls who captured Hanno's camp at Beneventum.[1]

Flaccus was

war against the Aetolians and at the Battle of Thermopylae.[5]

In 190, Flaccus served on the three-man commission (

Roman colony (colonia).[6]

In a "hotly contested" election,

conservative political sympathies and cultural outlook, and were loyal to the military and political views of the older generation represented by Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus.[citation needed] Both he and Cato sought to defend Roman tradition against Hellenism. He initiated construction of the Via Flacca
, named after him.

Flaccus was a member of the

Marcus Cornelius Cethegus
, until his death.

Flaccus became princeps senatus when Scipio Africanus died in 183. He himself died three years later.

References

Dates, offices, and citations of ancient sources for the career of Flaccus from

T.R.S. Broughton
, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, unless otherwise noted.

  1. T.R.S. Broughton
    , The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1951, 1986), vol. 1, pp. 269 and 272 (note 6).
  2. ^ Livy 31.4.5–6.
  3. ^ Livy 31.21.8.
  4. ^ Livy 33.43.5, 34.22.1–3 and 46.1, 42.2.4; Plutarch, Cato Maior 10.1.
  5. ^ Livy 36.19.1, 22.7, 27.3–8, 28.8; Appian, Syrian War 19.
  6. ^ Livy 37.46.10–11 and 37.57.7–8.
  7. ^ Broughton, MRR1 p. 374; Livy 39.40–41; Plutarch, Cato Maior 16.1–6.
  8. ^ Broughton, MRR1 pp. 374–375, with various ancient sources.

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Political offices
Preceded by
M. Porcius Cato
 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
M. Porcius Cato
 		Succeeded by
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