Valerius
Flaccus, was consul in B.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
In
Some fragments of the same, or of a very similar B. C. 215 he commanded as legate a detachment of
work, have found their way, probably by an acci- troops, under the consul, M. Claudius Marcellus, at
dental transposition of leaves, into the so-called Nola, and distinguished himself in the battle fought
Liber Simplici (pp. 76, 86, 87, Goes. ), which is there against Hannibal. Shortly after we find him
supposed by modern critics to be a compilation of commanding a Roman squadron of 25 sail off the
Aggenus Urbicus.
coast of Calabria, where he discovered the embassy
A similar transposition has bappened in another which Hannibal sent to Philip of Macedonia, and
instance. A treatise De Controversiis Agrorum, got possession of letters and documents containing
not unlike (although inferior to) the treatise of the terms of the treaty between Hannibal and the
Frontinus on the same subject, was first published king. His fleet was increased in consequence, and
by Blume in the Rheinisches Museum für Jurispru he was ordered not only to protect the coast of
denz, vol. v. pp. 142–170. In this treatise, in Italy, but also to watch the proceedings of Ma-
the midst of the Controversia de Fine, is a long cedonia. During the siege of Capua, when Han-
passage of Siculus Flaccus, interpolated from the nibal marched towards Rome, Flaccus gave the
fragment De Conditionibus Agrorum (from ergo ut prudent advice not to withdraw all the troops from
dixi, p. 4, to viac saepe necessariae, p. 9, Goes. ). Capua, and his opinion was adopted. (Liv. xxi.
The whole treatise in which this interpolation 6, xxiii
. 16, 34, 38, xxvi, 8 ; Cic. Philipp. 5. 10. )
occurs was attributed by Rudorff to Siculus Flaccus; 5. VALERIUS Flaccus, served as tribune of the
but Blume, in conformity with the statement of the soldiers under the consul Q. Fulvius Flaccus, in
Codex Arcerianus, assigns it to Hyginus.
B. c. 212, and distinguished himself by his bravery
*The fragment De Conditionibus Agrorum is fol- and boldness during the attack on the camp of
lowed (p. 26, Goes. ) by two lists of different kinds Hanno near Beneventum (Liv. xxv. 14).
of agri and limites, entitled respectively Nomina 6. C. VALERIUS P. F. L. n. Flaccus, was inaugu-
onsul in . . D.
6. Aug. 1 34;
[LS]
108. ]
L. POMPO-
7, and is A. D.
, and fought
which be was
mph. Tacitus
not very great,
wwn as a poet
pointed in Ad
administration
ist king Rha-
is brother and
(ii. 129) gives
i he was a ni
surt, simplicitat
orian. He ras,
wborn on me
it and two dars
Tit. 42) He
Syria, shere be
dun. ïî 32, ri
ar, whence Robe
## p. 158 (#174) ############################################
158
FLACCUS.
FLACCUS.
rated as flamen Dialis, in B. c. 209, against his own II. L. Valerius Flaccus, probably a son of
will, by the pontifex maximus, P. Licinius. He was a No. 10, and the father of L. Valerius Flaccus,
young man of a wanton and dissolute character, and whom Cicero defended. (See No. 15. ) When he
for this reason shunned by his own relatives ; but was curule aedile, the tribune, Decianus, brought
after his appointment to the priesthood, his conduct an accusation against him. In B. c. 100 he was
altered so much for the better, and his watchfulness the colleague of C. Marius, in his sixth consulship.
and care in the performance of his duties were so During the disturbances of L. Appuleius Satumi-
great, that he was admitted into the senate. In nus, the consuls were ordered by the senate to
B. c. 199 he was created curule acdile ; but being avail themselves of the assistance of the tribunes
famen dialis, he could not take the official oath, and and praetors, for the purpose of maintaining the
his brother, L. Valerius Flaccus (No. 7), who was dignity of the republic. In consequence of this,
then praetor designatus, took it for him. (Liv. Valerius Flaccus put to death Saturninus, Glaucia,
xxvii. 8, xxxi. 50, xxxii. 7. )
and others of the revolutionary party. Four years
7. L. VALERIUS P. F. L. n. Flaccus, a brother of after these occurrences, B. C. 97, he was censor
No. 6, was curule aedile in B. c. 201, and in the year with M. Antonius, the orator. In B. C. 86, when
following he was elected prnetor, and received Sicily Marius had died, in his seventh consulship, L. Va-
as his province. In B. C. 195 he was made ponti- lerius Flaccus was chosen by Cinna as his colleague,
fex, in the place of M. Cornelius Cethegus. In the in the place of Marius, and received the com-
same year he was invested with the consulship, mission to go into Asia, to resist Sulla, and to bring
together with M. Porcius Cato, and received Italy | the war against Mithridates to a close. He was
for bis province. During the summer he carried on accompanied on this expedition by C. Flavius
the war against the Boians, and defeated them ; Fimbria. Flaccus was avaricious, and very cruel
8000 of them were slain, and the rest dispersed in in his punishments, whence he was so unpopular
their lages. Flaccus afterwards spent his time with the soldiers, that many of them deserted to
on the banks of the Po, at Placentia and Cremona, Sulla and the rest were kept together only by the
being occupied in restoring what had been de influence of Fimbria, who, taking advantage of the
stroyed by war. He remained in the north of Italy state of affairs, played the part of an indulgent
also in the year B. c. 194, as proconsul, and in the commander, and won the favour of the sol-
neighbourhood of Milan he fought with great suc- diers. While yet at Byzantium, Fimbria had a
cess against the Gauls, Insubrians, and Boians, who quarrel with the quaestor, and the consul, Flaccus,
had crossed the Po under their chief, Dorulacus: being chosen as arbiter, decided in favour of the
10,000 enemies are said to have been killed. In quaestor. Fimbria was so indignant, that he
B. c. 191, although a consular, he served as legate threatened to return to Rome, whereupon Flaccus
under the consul, M'. Acilius Glabrio, in the war dismissed him from his service. While the latter
against the Aetolians and Macedoniang. With was sailing to Chalcedon, Fimbria, who had re-
2000 picked foot soldiers, he was ordered to occupy mained at Byzantium, created a mutiny among the
Rhoduntia and Tichius. The Macedonians, by a soldiers ; Flaccus, on being informed of it, hastily
mistake, approached his camp too closely, and, on returned to chastise the offender, but was com-
discovering the enemy, they took to flight in the pelled to take to flight. He reached Nicomedeia,
greatest disorder. Flaccus pursued them, and and shut the gates against his pursuer, but Fimbria
made great havoc among them. In B. c. 184 he had him dragged forth, and murdered him : his
was the colleague of M. Porcius Cato in the cen- head was thrown into the sea, and his body was
sorship, and in the same year he was made princeps left unburied. Most authorities place the murder
He died as pontifex in B. C. 180, and of Flaccus in the year of his consulship, B. C. 86,
was succeeded by Q. Fabius Labeo. (Liv. xxxi. 4, but Velleius (ii. 23, 24) places it a year later. At
49, 50, xxxii. 1, xxxii. 42, 43, xxxiv. 21, 46, the beginning of his consulship, Flaccus had carried
xxxvi. 17, 19, xxxix. 40, &c. , 52, xl. 42 ; Polyb. a law, by which it was decreed that debts should
&c. ; Plut. Cat. Maj. 12; Nep. Cat. 2; be cancelled, and only a quadrans be paid to the
Oros. iv. 20. )
creditors, and his violent death was regarded as a
8. L. VALERIUS Flaccus, a son of No. 4, one just punishment for his iniquitous law. (Liv. Epil.
of the triumvirs appointed to conduct 6000 families 82 ; Appian, Mithril. 51, &c. , Bell. Civ. i. 75;
as colonists to Placentia and Cremona, in B. c. 190, Plut. Sull. 33 ; Oros. vi. 2 ; Cic. pro Flacc. 23, 25,
those places having become almost deserted by the 32, pro Ralrir. perd. 7, 10, in Cal. i. 2, Brut. 62;
late war. (Liv. xxxvii. 46. )
Val. Max. ii. 9. & 5; Dion Cass. Fragm. Peir. No.
9. L.
Valerius Flaccus, was consul in B. c. 152, 127, p. 51, ed. Reimar. ) It was probably this
but died during his magistracy. (J. Obseq. 77. ) Valerius Flaccus who levied the legions which
10. L. VALERIUS Flaccus, was flamen Mar-were called, after him, Valerianae, and which are
tialis, and received the consulship in B. c. 131, with mentioned in the war of Lucullus against Mithri-
P. Licinius Crassus, then pontifex maximus. Flac- dates. (Liv. Epit. 98 ; Dion Cass. xxxv. 14, 15,
cus wished to undertake the command in the 16, xxxvi. 29 ; Sall. Hist. v. )
war against Aristonicus in Asia, but his colleague 12. L. VALERIUS Flaccus. When Sulla en-
fined him for deserting the sacra entrusted to his tered Rome, after the defeat of his enemies, he
care. The people, before whom the question was ordered the senate to appoint an intertex: the
brought for decision, cancelled the fine, but com- choice fell upon L. Valerius Flaccus, who imme-
pelled the flamen Flaccus to obey the pontiff Cras- diately brought forward and carried a law that
sus. (Cic. Phil. xi. 8. ) He may possibly be the Sulla should be invested with the supreme power
same as the one whose quaestor, M. Aemilius Scau- (the dictatorship) for an indefinite number of
rus, wanted to bring an accusation against him years, and that all the arrangements he had pre-
(Cic. Dirin. in Caec. 19), though it is uncertain viously made should be sanctioned, and binding as
whether Scaurus was quaestor in the praetorship or laws. Sulla, on entering upon the dictatorship,
consulship of Flaccus.
made Flaccus his magister equitum. (Plut. Sulla,
senatus.
xx.
## p. 159 (#175) ############################################
FLACCUS.
159
FLACCUS.
FLACCUS.
Flac
s Flaccus, prolably a des d
ather of L. Valerius Faces
,
ed. (See No. 15. ) When be
he tribune, Decianus brought
ist him. In B. C. 10 h 133
Marius, in bis sixth consukhin.
nces of L. Appuleius galima
iere ordered by the senate 3
the assistance of the tribines
he
purpose of maintaining the
. blic. In consequence of this
it to death Saturninus, Clua,
evolutionary party. Four Fees
inces, B. c. 97, he was censet
the omtor. In 2C86, s bez
1 his serenth consulship, LV>
chosen by Cinna as his a leagang
larius, and received the co-
C. VAL. FLA. IMPERAT. EX. 8. C.
Asin, to resist Sulla, and to bring
lithridates to a close. He was
his expedition by C. Flata
was avaricious, and very cruel
į, whence he was so unperala
hat many of them descried 10
were kept together only br the
1, who, taking advantage of the
ayed the part of an indiget
won the favour of the sol.
at Byzantium, Fimbria bed a
aestor, and the consul, Flactos,
viter, decided in farcur of the
1 was so indignant
, tias be
i to Rome, whereupen Flacus
bis service. While the lacier
cedon, Fimbria, who had met
71, created a mutins among the
7 being informed of it
, bast!
the offender, bat was co-
ht. He reached Nicomede,
ainst his pursuer, bat Findria
th, and murdered him: bis
the sea, and his body 528
authorities place the murder
I of his consulship, 8C 88
-) places it a year later
. At
33; Appian, B. C. i. 97, &c. ; Cic. de Leg. Agr. iii. specimens are given below. The first has on the
2, ad At. viii. 3; Schol. Gronov. ad Roscian. p. obverse the head of Pallas, and on the reverse
435, ed. Orelli. )
13. C. VALERIUS FLAccUs was praetor urbanus
in B. c. 98, and, on the authority of the senate, he
brought a bill before the people that Calliphana, of
Velia, should receive the Ronian franchise. (Cal-
LIPHANA. ) In B. C. 93 he was consul, with M.
Herennius, and afterwards he succeeded T. Didius
as proconsul in Spain. As the Celtiberians, who
• had been most cruelly treated by his predecessors, Victory in a bign, with c. VA. C. F, FLAC. The
revolted in the town of Belgida, and burnt all their second has on the obverse the head of Victory,
senators in the senate-house, because they refused
to join the people, Flaccus took possession of the and on the reverse the military standard of an
town by surprise
, and put to death all those who eagle, between two other military standards, with
This C. Va-
had taken part in burning the senate-house. (Cic.
pro Balb. 24; Schol. Bob. ad Cic.
P
Flacc. p. 233,
ed. Orelli ; Appian, Hispan. 100. )
14. C. VALERIUS Flaccus is called imperator
and propraetor of Gaul in B. C. 83, in the consul-
ship of L. Cornelius Scipio and C. Norbanus. (Cic.
pro Quint. 7. ) He may possibly be the same as
No. 13.
15. L. VALERIUS FLACCUE, a son of No. 11, lerius Flaccus may be the same as No. 14, whom
served in Cilicia as tribune of the soldiers, under Cicero calls Imperator. The third coin has on the
P. Servilius, in B. c. 78, and afterwards as quaestor, obverse the head of Victory, and on the reverse
under M. Calpurnius Piso, in Spain. (Cic. pro Mars standing between an apex (Dict. of Ant. s. v. )
Flacc. 3. ) He was praetor in B. C. 63, the year of and an ear of corn, with L. VALERI FLACCI. The
Cicero's consulship, who through his assistance got apex shows that this L. Flaccus was a flamen, and
possession of the documents which the Allobrogian he may therefore have been either the L. Flaccus
ambassadors bad received from the accomplices of consul in B. c. 131 (No. 10), who was a flamen of
Catiline. In the year after his praetorship he had Mars, or the L. Flaccus, a contemporary of Cicero
the administration of Asia, in which he was suc- [ No. 18], who was also a flamen of Mars. (Eck-
ceeded by Q. Cicero. (Cic. pro Flacc, 13, 14, 21, hel, vol. v. p. 333. )
40. ) In B. C. 59 he was accused by D. Laelius of
having been guilty of extortion in his province of
Asia ; but Flaccus, although he was undoubtedly
guilty, was defended by Cicero (in the oration pro
Flacco, which is still extant) and Q. Hortensius,
and was acquitted. (Comp. Cic. in Cat. iii. 2, 6 ;
ad Att. i. 19, i. 25, in Pison, 23; the oration pro
Flacco; pro Planc. 11; Schol. Bob. p. Flacc. p. 228;
Sallust, Cat. 45. )
16. C. VALERIUS Flaccus, a friend of App. FLACCUS, C. VALERIUS. All that is
Claudius Pulcher, whom Cicero saw in Cilicia B. C. known or that can be conjectured with plausibility
5). (Cic. ad Fum.
Some fragments of the same, or of a very similar B. C. 215 he commanded as legate a detachment of
work, have found their way, probably by an acci- troops, under the consul, M. Claudius Marcellus, at
dental transposition of leaves, into the so-called Nola, and distinguished himself in the battle fought
Liber Simplici (pp. 76, 86, 87, Goes. ), which is there against Hannibal. Shortly after we find him
supposed by modern critics to be a compilation of commanding a Roman squadron of 25 sail off the
Aggenus Urbicus.
coast of Calabria, where he discovered the embassy
A similar transposition has bappened in another which Hannibal sent to Philip of Macedonia, and
instance. A treatise De Controversiis Agrorum, got possession of letters and documents containing
not unlike (although inferior to) the treatise of the terms of the treaty between Hannibal and the
Frontinus on the same subject, was first published king. His fleet was increased in consequence, and
by Blume in the Rheinisches Museum für Jurispru he was ordered not only to protect the coast of
denz, vol. v. pp. 142–170. In this treatise, in Italy, but also to watch the proceedings of Ma-
the midst of the Controversia de Fine, is a long cedonia. During the siege of Capua, when Han-
passage of Siculus Flaccus, interpolated from the nibal marched towards Rome, Flaccus gave the
fragment De Conditionibus Agrorum (from ergo ut prudent advice not to withdraw all the troops from
dixi, p. 4, to viac saepe necessariae, p. 9, Goes. ). Capua, and his opinion was adopted. (Liv. xxi.
The whole treatise in which this interpolation 6, xxiii
. 16, 34, 38, xxvi, 8 ; Cic. Philipp. 5. 10. )
occurs was attributed by Rudorff to Siculus Flaccus; 5. VALERIUS Flaccus, served as tribune of the
but Blume, in conformity with the statement of the soldiers under the consul Q. Fulvius Flaccus, in
Codex Arcerianus, assigns it to Hyginus.
B. c. 212, and distinguished himself by his bravery
*The fragment De Conditionibus Agrorum is fol- and boldness during the attack on the camp of
lowed (p. 26, Goes. ) by two lists of different kinds Hanno near Beneventum (Liv. xxv. 14).
of agri and limites, entitled respectively Nomina 6. C. VALERIUS P. F. L. n. Flaccus, was inaugu-
onsul in . . D.
6. Aug. 1 34;
[LS]
108. ]
L. POMPO-
7, and is A. D.
, and fought
which be was
mph. Tacitus
not very great,
wwn as a poet
pointed in Ad
administration
ist king Rha-
is brother and
(ii. 129) gives
i he was a ni
surt, simplicitat
orian. He ras,
wborn on me
it and two dars
Tit. 42) He
Syria, shere be
dun. ïî 32, ri
ar, whence Robe
## p. 158 (#174) ############################################
158
FLACCUS.
FLACCUS.
rated as flamen Dialis, in B. c. 209, against his own II. L. Valerius Flaccus, probably a son of
will, by the pontifex maximus, P. Licinius. He was a No. 10, and the father of L. Valerius Flaccus,
young man of a wanton and dissolute character, and whom Cicero defended. (See No. 15. ) When he
for this reason shunned by his own relatives ; but was curule aedile, the tribune, Decianus, brought
after his appointment to the priesthood, his conduct an accusation against him. In B. c. 100 he was
altered so much for the better, and his watchfulness the colleague of C. Marius, in his sixth consulship.
and care in the performance of his duties were so During the disturbances of L. Appuleius Satumi-
great, that he was admitted into the senate. In nus, the consuls were ordered by the senate to
B. c. 199 he was created curule acdile ; but being avail themselves of the assistance of the tribunes
famen dialis, he could not take the official oath, and and praetors, for the purpose of maintaining the
his brother, L. Valerius Flaccus (No. 7), who was dignity of the republic. In consequence of this,
then praetor designatus, took it for him. (Liv. Valerius Flaccus put to death Saturninus, Glaucia,
xxvii. 8, xxxi. 50, xxxii. 7. )
and others of the revolutionary party. Four years
7. L. VALERIUS P. F. L. n. Flaccus, a brother of after these occurrences, B. C. 97, he was censor
No. 6, was curule aedile in B. c. 201, and in the year with M. Antonius, the orator. In B. C. 86, when
following he was elected prnetor, and received Sicily Marius had died, in his seventh consulship, L. Va-
as his province. In B. C. 195 he was made ponti- lerius Flaccus was chosen by Cinna as his colleague,
fex, in the place of M. Cornelius Cethegus. In the in the place of Marius, and received the com-
same year he was invested with the consulship, mission to go into Asia, to resist Sulla, and to bring
together with M. Porcius Cato, and received Italy | the war against Mithridates to a close. He was
for bis province. During the summer he carried on accompanied on this expedition by C. Flavius
the war against the Boians, and defeated them ; Fimbria. Flaccus was avaricious, and very cruel
8000 of them were slain, and the rest dispersed in in his punishments, whence he was so unpopular
their lages. Flaccus afterwards spent his time with the soldiers, that many of them deserted to
on the banks of the Po, at Placentia and Cremona, Sulla and the rest were kept together only by the
being occupied in restoring what had been de influence of Fimbria, who, taking advantage of the
stroyed by war. He remained in the north of Italy state of affairs, played the part of an indulgent
also in the year B. c. 194, as proconsul, and in the commander, and won the favour of the sol-
neighbourhood of Milan he fought with great suc- diers. While yet at Byzantium, Fimbria had a
cess against the Gauls, Insubrians, and Boians, who quarrel with the quaestor, and the consul, Flaccus,
had crossed the Po under their chief, Dorulacus: being chosen as arbiter, decided in favour of the
10,000 enemies are said to have been killed. In quaestor. Fimbria was so indignant, that he
B. c. 191, although a consular, he served as legate threatened to return to Rome, whereupon Flaccus
under the consul, M'. Acilius Glabrio, in the war dismissed him from his service. While the latter
against the Aetolians and Macedoniang. With was sailing to Chalcedon, Fimbria, who had re-
2000 picked foot soldiers, he was ordered to occupy mained at Byzantium, created a mutiny among the
Rhoduntia and Tichius. The Macedonians, by a soldiers ; Flaccus, on being informed of it, hastily
mistake, approached his camp too closely, and, on returned to chastise the offender, but was com-
discovering the enemy, they took to flight in the pelled to take to flight. He reached Nicomedeia,
greatest disorder. Flaccus pursued them, and and shut the gates against his pursuer, but Fimbria
made great havoc among them. In B. c. 184 he had him dragged forth, and murdered him : his
was the colleague of M. Porcius Cato in the cen- head was thrown into the sea, and his body was
sorship, and in the same year he was made princeps left unburied. Most authorities place the murder
He died as pontifex in B. C. 180, and of Flaccus in the year of his consulship, B. C. 86,
was succeeded by Q. Fabius Labeo. (Liv. xxxi. 4, but Velleius (ii. 23, 24) places it a year later. At
49, 50, xxxii. 1, xxxii. 42, 43, xxxiv. 21, 46, the beginning of his consulship, Flaccus had carried
xxxvi. 17, 19, xxxix. 40, &c. , 52, xl. 42 ; Polyb. a law, by which it was decreed that debts should
&c. ; Plut. Cat. Maj. 12; Nep. Cat. 2; be cancelled, and only a quadrans be paid to the
Oros. iv. 20. )
creditors, and his violent death was regarded as a
8. L. VALERIUS Flaccus, a son of No. 4, one just punishment for his iniquitous law. (Liv. Epil.
of the triumvirs appointed to conduct 6000 families 82 ; Appian, Mithril. 51, &c. , Bell. Civ. i. 75;
as colonists to Placentia and Cremona, in B. c. 190, Plut. Sull. 33 ; Oros. vi. 2 ; Cic. pro Flacc. 23, 25,
those places having become almost deserted by the 32, pro Ralrir. perd. 7, 10, in Cal. i. 2, Brut. 62;
late war. (Liv. xxxvii. 46. )
Val. Max. ii. 9. & 5; Dion Cass. Fragm. Peir. No.
9. L.
Valerius Flaccus, was consul in B. c. 152, 127, p. 51, ed. Reimar. ) It was probably this
but died during his magistracy. (J. Obseq. 77. ) Valerius Flaccus who levied the legions which
10. L. VALERIUS Flaccus, was flamen Mar-were called, after him, Valerianae, and which are
tialis, and received the consulship in B. c. 131, with mentioned in the war of Lucullus against Mithri-
P. Licinius Crassus, then pontifex maximus. Flac- dates. (Liv. Epit. 98 ; Dion Cass. xxxv. 14, 15,
cus wished to undertake the command in the 16, xxxvi. 29 ; Sall. Hist. v. )
war against Aristonicus in Asia, but his colleague 12. L. VALERIUS Flaccus. When Sulla en-
fined him for deserting the sacra entrusted to his tered Rome, after the defeat of his enemies, he
care. The people, before whom the question was ordered the senate to appoint an intertex: the
brought for decision, cancelled the fine, but com- choice fell upon L. Valerius Flaccus, who imme-
pelled the flamen Flaccus to obey the pontiff Cras- diately brought forward and carried a law that
sus. (Cic. Phil. xi. 8. ) He may possibly be the Sulla should be invested with the supreme power
same as the one whose quaestor, M. Aemilius Scau- (the dictatorship) for an indefinite number of
rus, wanted to bring an accusation against him years, and that all the arrangements he had pre-
(Cic. Dirin. in Caec. 19), though it is uncertain viously made should be sanctioned, and binding as
whether Scaurus was quaestor in the praetorship or laws. Sulla, on entering upon the dictatorship,
consulship of Flaccus.
made Flaccus his magister equitum. (Plut. Sulla,
senatus.
xx.
## p. 159 (#175) ############################################
FLACCUS.
159
FLACCUS.
FLACCUS.
Flac
s Flaccus, prolably a des d
ather of L. Valerius Faces
,
ed. (See No. 15. ) When be
he tribune, Decianus brought
ist him. In B. C. 10 h 133
Marius, in bis sixth consukhin.
nces of L. Appuleius galima
iere ordered by the senate 3
the assistance of the tribines
he
purpose of maintaining the
. blic. In consequence of this
it to death Saturninus, Clua,
evolutionary party. Four Fees
inces, B. c. 97, he was censet
the omtor. In 2C86, s bez
1 his serenth consulship, LV>
chosen by Cinna as his a leagang
larius, and received the co-
C. VAL. FLA. IMPERAT. EX. 8. C.
Asin, to resist Sulla, and to bring
lithridates to a close. He was
his expedition by C. Flata
was avaricious, and very cruel
į, whence he was so unperala
hat many of them descried 10
were kept together only br the
1, who, taking advantage of the
ayed the part of an indiget
won the favour of the sol.
at Byzantium, Fimbria bed a
aestor, and the consul, Flactos,
viter, decided in farcur of the
1 was so indignant
, tias be
i to Rome, whereupen Flacus
bis service. While the lacier
cedon, Fimbria, who had met
71, created a mutins among the
7 being informed of it
, bast!
the offender, bat was co-
ht. He reached Nicomede,
ainst his pursuer, bat Findria
th, and murdered him: bis
the sea, and his body 528
authorities place the murder
I of his consulship, 8C 88
-) places it a year later
. At
33; Appian, B. C. i. 97, &c. ; Cic. de Leg. Agr. iii. specimens are given below. The first has on the
2, ad At. viii. 3; Schol. Gronov. ad Roscian. p. obverse the head of Pallas, and on the reverse
435, ed. Orelli. )
13. C. VALERIUS FLAccUs was praetor urbanus
in B. c. 98, and, on the authority of the senate, he
brought a bill before the people that Calliphana, of
Velia, should receive the Ronian franchise. (Cal-
LIPHANA. ) In B. C. 93 he was consul, with M.
Herennius, and afterwards he succeeded T. Didius
as proconsul in Spain. As the Celtiberians, who
• had been most cruelly treated by his predecessors, Victory in a bign, with c. VA. C. F, FLAC. The
revolted in the town of Belgida, and burnt all their second has on the obverse the head of Victory,
senators in the senate-house, because they refused
to join the people, Flaccus took possession of the and on the reverse the military standard of an
town by surprise
, and put to death all those who eagle, between two other military standards, with
This C. Va-
had taken part in burning the senate-house. (Cic.
pro Balb. 24; Schol. Bob. ad Cic.
P
Flacc. p. 233,
ed. Orelli ; Appian, Hispan. 100. )
14. C. VALERIUS Flaccus is called imperator
and propraetor of Gaul in B. C. 83, in the consul-
ship of L. Cornelius Scipio and C. Norbanus. (Cic.
pro Quint. 7. ) He may possibly be the same as
No. 13.
15. L. VALERIUS FLACCUE, a son of No. 11, lerius Flaccus may be the same as No. 14, whom
served in Cilicia as tribune of the soldiers, under Cicero calls Imperator. The third coin has on the
P. Servilius, in B. c. 78, and afterwards as quaestor, obverse the head of Victory, and on the reverse
under M. Calpurnius Piso, in Spain. (Cic. pro Mars standing between an apex (Dict. of Ant. s. v. )
Flacc. 3. ) He was praetor in B. C. 63, the year of and an ear of corn, with L. VALERI FLACCI. The
Cicero's consulship, who through his assistance got apex shows that this L. Flaccus was a flamen, and
possession of the documents which the Allobrogian he may therefore have been either the L. Flaccus
ambassadors bad received from the accomplices of consul in B. c. 131 (No. 10), who was a flamen of
Catiline. In the year after his praetorship he had Mars, or the L. Flaccus, a contemporary of Cicero
the administration of Asia, in which he was suc- [ No. 18], who was also a flamen of Mars. (Eck-
ceeded by Q. Cicero. (Cic. pro Flacc, 13, 14, 21, hel, vol. v. p. 333. )
40. ) In B. C. 59 he was accused by D. Laelius of
having been guilty of extortion in his province of
Asia ; but Flaccus, although he was undoubtedly
guilty, was defended by Cicero (in the oration pro
Flacco, which is still extant) and Q. Hortensius,
and was acquitted. (Comp. Cic. in Cat. iii. 2, 6 ;
ad Att. i. 19, i. 25, in Pison, 23; the oration pro
Flacco; pro Planc. 11; Schol. Bob. p. Flacc. p. 228;
Sallust, Cat. 45. )
16. C. VALERIUS Flaccus, a friend of App. FLACCUS, C. VALERIUS. All that is
Claudius Pulcher, whom Cicero saw in Cilicia B. C. known or that can be conjectured with plausibility
5). (Cic. ad Fum.
