Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

VALE0037 M'. Valerius (243) Volus. f. Maximus

Status

  • Patrician
  • Nobilis Expand

    Cic. Brut. 14.54-16.62 ("M. Valerius", founder of family's nobilitas)

Life Dates

  • 525?, birth (Sumner Orators) Expand

    Sumner R2.

  • 463, death (Rüpke 2005)

Relationships

son of
Volus. Valerius (89) (father of M. Valerius (74) Volus. f. (Volusus)? (cos. 505)) (RE)
brother of
Valeria (385) (sacerdos Fortuna Muliebris 488) (RE)
M. Valerius (74) Volus. f. (Volusus)? (cos. 505) (RE)
P. Valerius (302) Volus. f. - n. Poplicola (cos. suff. 509) (RE)
father of
M. Valerius (246) M'. f. Volus. n. Maximus (Lactuca) (cos. 456) (RE)

Career

  • Augur before 495 to 463 (Rüpke 2005) Expand
    • The praenomen is M'. in the Elogium, in Act. Tr., and Dion. Hal., but M. in other sources. Mommsen distinguishes him from the Consul of 505, and identifies him with the Augur who died in 463 (Liv. 3.7.6), neglecting the statement in Dion. Hal. (6.39.2) that he was a brother of Poplicola and already and old man. Münzer (Gent. Val. 18ff.) identifies him with the Consul of 505. According to Degrassi (Inscr. Ital. 13.3.78), Mommsen's view is preferable since M'. is easily corrupted to M., and the Elogium definitely states that he had held no office previous to his dictatorship. See Bardt, Priester 17, no. 1. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Elogium, CIL 1 , p. 189ff.- Inscr. Ital. 13.3.78 and 60; cf. Liv. 3.7.6. (Broughton MRR I)
    • In the Index (MRR 2.630), the entry should read as follows: Dict. 494, Leg., envoy 493, Augur ?-463 (see 494) , Princeps senatus 493. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Dictator 494 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Induced the Plebs, who had seceded, to serve against invaders and won a triumph over the Sabines and the Medullini; resigned when the patricians refused to fulfill his pledge of relief to the Plebs (Val. Ant. fr. 17 Peter; Cic. Brut. 54; Liv. 2.30.4-31.11; Dion. Hal. 6.38-45; Act. Tr., Degrassi 66f., 536f.; Elogium, CIL 1 , p. 189ff.- Inscr. Ital. 13.3.78 and 60; Plut. Cor. 5.2; Pomp. 13.7; Dio fr. 17.6; Oros. 2.5.5; Fest. 464 L; Zon. 7.14). Appointed Princeps Senatus, perhaps in the census attributed to 493 (Elogium). See Degrassi 88, 352f.; Münzer, Gent. Val. 18-25. (Broughton MRR I)
    • In the Index (MRR 2.630), the entry should read as follows: Dict. 494, Leg., envoy 493, Augur ?-463 (see 494) , Princeps senatus 493. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Triumphator 494 (Rich 2014) Expand
    • Triumph de Sabineis et Medullineis. MRR I.14, Itgenshorst p. 262, Rich no. 24. (Rich 2014)
  • Legatus (Envoy) 493 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Dion. Hal. lists only eight, but Jacoby notes evidence of lacunae before and after the name of Servilius, but it is not sure whether more than the cognomina have been lost. One of the missing names is Larcius, who took an active part in the discussions (6.81.1-82.1), and whose name may have followed that of Aebutius since the latter's cognomen Helva has apparently been replaced by that of Larcius Flavus. Valerius is represented as the senior member in both Dion. Hal. (6.71.1), and possibly in the Elogium (CIL 1(2), p. 189; Inscr. Ital. 13.3.60 and 78), a version which minimizes the part otherwise assigned to Menenius Agrippa (Liv. 2.32.8 and 33.10-11; Dion. Hal. 6.83.1-88.2). For the many later references to Agrippa's parable, see RE. (Broughton MRR I)
    • List by Dion. Hal. (6.69.3 and 81.1-82.1) of a group of ten envoys, all consulars but one, sent to treat with the leaders of the secession of the Plebs. (Broughton MRR I)
    • In the Index (MRR 2.630), the entry should read as follows: Dict. 494, Leg., envoy 493, Augur ?-463 (see 494) , Princeps senatus 493. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Princeps Senatus 493 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • In the Index (MRR 2.630), the entry should read as follows: Dict. 494, Leg., envoy 493, Augur ?-463 (see 494) , Princeps senatus 493. (Broughton MRR III)

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