Marcus Valerius Corvus

Marcus Valerius Corvus (370 BC - 270 BC) was a Roman hero of the 4th century BC, characterized as a farmer who lived to be one hundred.

His list of accomplishments is suspiciously long; Valerius Antias is considered to have been responsible for some of the exaggeration.

349 - as tribune, defeats a giant Gaul in single combat, helped by a crow or raven (thus the cognomen)^[1]
348 - consul, at age of 22
346 - consul again, defeats Volsci
343 - consul again, defeats Samnites
342 - dictator
335 - consul, defeats Cales
301 - dictator again
300 - consul, defeats Aequi, introduces law of appeal
299 - suffect consul, defeats Etruscans

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Preceded by Lucius Furius Camillus and Appius Claudius Crassus Inregillensis	Consul of the Roman Republic with Marcus Popillius Laenas 348 BC	Succeeded by Gaius Plautius Vennox Hypsaeo and Titus Manlius Imperiosus Torquatus
Preceded by Gaius Plautius Vennox Hypsaeo and Titus Manlius Imperiosus Torquatus	Consul of the Roman Republic with Gaius Poetelius Libo Visolus 346 BC	Succeeded by Marcus Fabius Dorsuo and Servius Sulpicius Camerinus Rufus
Preceded by Gaius Marcius Rutilus and Titus Manlius Imperiosus Torquatus	Consul of the Roman Republic with Aulus Cornelius Cossus Arvina 343 BC	Succeeded by Quintus Servilius Ahala and Gaius Marcius Rutilus
Preceded by Lucius Papirius Crassus and Kaeso Duillius	Consul of the Roman Republic with Marcus Atilius Regulus Calenus 335 BC	Succeeded by Spurius Postumius Albinus and Titus Veturius Calvinus
Preceded by Fourth dictator year	Consul of the Roman Republic with Quintus Appuleius Pansa 300 BC	Succeeded by Marcus Fulvius Paetinus and Titus Manlius Torquatus
Preceded by Marcus Fulvius Paetinus and Titus Manlius Torquatus	Consul (Suffect.) of the Roman Republic with Marcus Fulvius Paetinus 299 BC	Succeeded by Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus and Gnaeus Fulvius Maximus Centumalus