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Lucius Volumnius Flamma Violens was a Roman politician and a consul at the same time as Appius Claudius Caecus at the end of the third century B.C. He was a novus homo, the first member of his family to become consul in 307 BC and 296 BC. [1] In 296 BC Claudius and Volumnius defeated a combined Etruscan and Samnite army in a battle near the river Volturno in which they had invaded Campania. [2]
[edit] See Also
- Virginia, Wife of Lucius Volumnius
- Egnatius
- Appius Claudius Caecus
[edit] References
- ^ Journal of Roman Studies (1972) book review, v. 62, pp. 187-188, J. Briscoe says "The first plebeian consul known to have presided was Lucius Volumnius Flamma Violens in 296 BC."
- ^ Livy's History, Book X, 20
