Gaius Valerius Flaccus (consul 93 BCE)

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Gaius Valerius Flaccus was a Roman consul in 93 BC.

He was elected praetor urbanus in 98 BC, and, on the authority of the senate, he brought a bill before the people that Calliphana, of Velia, should receive the Roman franchise.

In 93 BC he was consul, with Marcus Herennius, and afterwards he succeeded Titus Didius as proconsul in Spain. As the Celtiberians, who, had been most cruelly treated by his predecessors, revolted in the town of Belgida, and burnt all their senators in the senate-house, because they refused to join the people, Flaccus took possession of the town by surprise, and put to death all those who had taken part in burning the senate-house.

References

• Cicero Pro Balbo 24
• Schol. Bob. ad Cic. p. Flacc. p. 233, ed. Orelli
• Appian, The Spanish Wars 100

Preceded by Gaius Coelius Caldus and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus

Consul of the Roman Republic with Marcus Herennius 93 BCE

Succeeded by Gaius Claudius Pulcher and Marcus Perperna

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).