Lucius Valerius Flaccus (consul 261 BC)

Lucius Valerius Flaccus was a consul of the Roman Republic in 261 BC with Tiberius Otacilius Crassus. He was possibly the ancestor of all later consuls by that name, since he marks the first appearance of a Lucius Valerius Flaccus on the list of consuls.[1] He and his consular colleague waged war in Sicily.[2]

Preceded by
Lucius Postumius Megellus and Q. Mamilius Vitulus		 Consul of the Roman Republic
with Tiberius Otacilius Crassus
261 BC		 Succeeded by
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina and Gaius Duilius

References

  1. ^ A Lucius Valerius Flaccus had been magister equitum in 321 BC (Livy 8.18.13), but nothing else is known of the man.
  2. ^ Polybius 1.20.3–7, cf. Diodorus Siculus 23.9; Frontinus, Stratagems 3.16.3; Zonaras 8.10, as cited by T.R.S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1951, 1986), vol. 1, p. 204.

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