Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

VALE1802 L. Valerius (178) C.? f. L. n. Flaccus

Status

  • Patrician

Life Dates

  • 135?, birth (Develin 1979) Expand

    Develin p. 90.

  • 85, death - violent (Broughton MRR II) Expand

    Murdered in mutiny.

Relationships

grandson of
L. Valerius (174) L. f. P. n. Flaccus (cos. 152) (Badian 1990)
son of
? C. Valerius (D) Flaccus (son of? L. Valerius (174) L. f. P. n. Flaccus (cos. 152)) (Zmeskal 2009)
brother of
C. Valerius (168) C. f. L. n. Flaccus (cos. 93) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Flacc. 5 Schol. Bob. 96 St.

married to
Baebia (47b) (daughter of Q. Baebius (40) Sulca (pr.? 175)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Inschr. Magnesia 144

father of
L. Valerius (179) L. f. C.? n. Flaccus (pr. 63) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Flacc. 59, Cic. Flacc. 77, Cic. Flacc. frag. Mediolanense p. 203 Clark

Career

  • Aedilis Curulis? 99 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Cic. Flacc. 77; cf. Schol. Bob. 95 and 105 Stangl. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cos. Suff. 86. Aedile in 98 (or 99), he may have become praetor in 95 (or 96?) and then proceeded to his proconsulate in Asia in 94 or 95 (MRR 2.18-19; Sumner, GRBS 19, 1978, 147-153). Badian rejected identifying this Flaccus with the one whose quaestor M. Aurelius Scaurus attempted to prosecute and would identify him with no. 176, Cos. 100, but has now reversed his view (Klio 66, 1984, 298- 301). See above. Cos. suff. 86. As his death did not occur until early in 85 he should be included in MRR 2.58- 59 among the promagistrates of that year (Badian, Studies 102, note 117; Sumner, Orators 124; Lintott, Historia 20, 1971, 701). (Broughton MRR III)
  • Aedilis Curulis? 98 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Cos. Suff. 86. Aedile in 98 (or 99), he may have become praetor in 95 (or 96?) and then proceeded to his proconsulate in Asia in 94 or 95 (MRR 2.18-19; Sumner, GRBS 19, 1978, 147-153). Badian rejected identifying this Flaccus with the one whose quaestor M. Aurelius Scaurus attempted to prosecute and would identify him with no. 176, Cos. 100, but has now reversed his view (Klio 66, 1984, 298- 301). See above. Cos. suff. 86. As his death did not occur until early in 85 he should be included in MRR 2.58- 59 among the promagistrates of that year (Badian, Studies 102, note 117; Sumner, Orators 124; Lintott, Historia 20, 1971, 701). (Broughton MRR III)
  • Praetor? 96 Asia (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Cos. Suff. 86. Aedile in 98 (or 99), he may have become praetor in 95 (or 96?) and then proceeded to his proconsulate in Asia in 94 or 95 (MRR 2.18-19; Sumner, GRBS 19, 1978, 147-153). Badian rejected identifying this Flaccus with the one whose quaestor M. Aurelius Scaurus attempted to prosecute and would identify him with no. 176, Cos. 100, but has now reversed his view (Klio 66, 1984, 298- 301). See above. Cos. suff. 86. As his death did not occur until early in 85 he should be included in MRR 2.58- 59 among the promagistrates of that year (Badian, Studies 102, note 117; Sumner, Orators 124; Lintott, Historia 20, 1971, 701). (Broughton MRR III)
    • Before 90. p. 747, footnote 272 (Brennan 2000)
  • Proconsul? 95 Asia (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Superior officer, Praetor or Proconsul, to M. Aurelius Scaurus, the Quaestor who attempted to prosecute him but was not permitted to do so (Cic. Div. in Caec. 63; Ps.-Ascon. 203 Stangl). His date depends on that of Scaurus. See Münzer, Gent. Val. 40, no. 21. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Valerius Flaccus, though appointed to Asia in his consulship (see 86, Consuls), was killed by Fimbria before he reached his province. The provincial collections therefore for a festival in his honor which were deposited at Tralles before the Mithridatic War (Cic. Flacc. 55-61.) indicate that he had been governor of Asia either during, or more probably after, his praetorship. As he had held the aedileship in 99 his governorship would probably follow that of Mucius Scaevola in 91 and precede that of C. Iulius Caesar about 91. See Sternkopf, Jahrb. f. Cl. Philol. 155 (1897) 573-576; and Magie, Roman Rule in Asia Minor 2.1242, note 1. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cos. Suff. 86. Aedile in 98 (or 99), he may have become praetor in 95 (or 96?) and then proceeded to his proconsulate in Asia in 94 or 95 (MRR 2.18-19; Sumner, GRBS 19, 1978, 147-153). Badian rejected identifying this Flaccus with the one whose quaestor M. Aurelius Scaurus attempted to prosecute and would identify him with no. 176, Cos. 100, but has now reversed his view (Klio 66, 1984, 298- 301). See above. Cos. suff. 86. As his death did not occur until early in 85 he should be included in MRR 2.58- 59 among the promagistrates of that year (Badian, Studies 102, note 117; Sumner, Orators 124; Lintott, Historia 20, 1971, 701). (Broughton MRR III)
  • Praetor? 95 Asia (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Cos. Suff. 86. Aedile in 98 (or 99), he may have become praetor in 95 (or 96?) and then proceeded to his proconsulate in Asia in 94 or 95 (MRR 2.18-19; Sumner, GRBS 19, 1978, 147-153). Badian rejected identifying this Flaccus with the one whose quaestor M. Aurelius Scaurus attempted to prosecute and would identify him with no. 176, Cos. 100, but has now reversed his view (Klio 66, 1984, 298- 301). See above. Cos. suff. 86. As his death did not occur until early in 85 he should be included in MRR 2.58- 59 among the promagistrates of that year (Badian, Studies 102, note 117; Sumner, Orators 124; Lintott, Historia 20, 1971, 701). (Broughton MRR III)
    • Before 90. p. 747, footnote 272 (Brennan 2000)
  • Proconsul? 94 Asia (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Cos. Suff. 86. Aedile in 98 (or 99), he may have become praetor in 95 (or 96?) and then proceeded to his proconsulate in Asia in 94 or 95 (MRR 2.18-19; Sumner, GRBS 19, 1978, 147-153). Badian rejected identifying this Flaccus with the one whose quaestor M. Aurelius Scaurus attempted to prosecute and would identify him with no. 176, Cos. 100, but has now reversed his view (Klio 66, 1984, 298- 301). See above. Cos. suff. 86. As his death did not occur until early in 85 he should be included in MRR 2.58- 59 among the promagistrates of that year (Badian, Studies 102, note 117; Sumner, Orators 124; Lintott, Historia 20, 1971, 701). (Broughton MRR III)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant)? 87 Italia (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Valerius may possibly be identified with the L. Valerius Flaccus who became Consul Suffectus in 86 after the death of Marius (see 86, Consul Suffectus). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Betrayed Ostia to Marius (Gran. Lic. 25B; cf. Liv. Per. 79; Plut. Mar. 42.1; App. BC 1.67; Oros. 5.19.17). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Consul Suffectus 86 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • 1 Münzer (Gent. Val. 42, no. 27) infers from a passage in Schol. Bob. 96 Stangl, which includes a quotation from Cic. Flacc., that the Consul Suffectus was a brother of C. Valerius Flaccus, who celebrated a triumph from Gaul and Spain in 81 (Gran. Lic. 39 B). He identifies C. Flaccus with the Consul of 93. (Broughton MRR II)
    • Elected before February 5 (CIL 12.2.891; cf. Fast. Cap., Degrassi 54f.. 130, 482f.). Carried a law to permit debtors to settle debts for one fourth of the principal sum (Vell. 2.23.2; cf. Cic. Font. 1.1; Quinct. 17; Sall. Cat. 33.2; see ESA-R 1.270f.). Also succeeded Marius in the command against Mithridates, but after losing some of his forces on the Way to the East and some to Sulla, and alienating many more, he was killed in a mutiny which was led by his Legate Fimbria (Cic. Flacc. 61, and Fr. Mediol.; Diod. 38.8.1; Strabo 13.1.27, 594c; Liv. Per. 82; Vell. 2.24.1; Plut. Sull. 20.1; Luc. 7.2; App. BC 1.75, with dating unclear; Mith. 51-53; Memnon in FGrH 3B.353, 34; Dio 30-35, fr. 105.1-5; Auct. Vir. Ill. 70.1; Oros. 6.2.9; cf. Sall. Hist. 3.33; 5.13M; Liv. Per. 98, on the Valerian legions). See Bennett, Cinna 45-50. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Promagistrate 85 Gallia Transalpina (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Cos. Suff. 86. Aedile in 98 (or 99), he may have become praetor in 95 (or 96?) and then proceeded to his proconsulate in Asia in 94 or 95 (MRR 2.18-19; Sumner, GRBS 19, 1978, 147-153). Badian rejected identifying this Flaccus with the one whose quaestor M. Aurelius Scaurus attempted to prosecute and would identify him with no. 176, Cos. 100, but has now reversed his view (Klio 66, 1984, 298- 301). See above. Cos. suff. 86. As his death did not occur until early in 85 he should be included in MRR 2.58- 59 among the promagistrates of that year (Badian, Studies 102, note 117; Sumner, Orators 124; Lintott, Historia 20, 1971, 701). (Broughton MRR III)

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