Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

VALE0556 C. Valerius (306) L. f. L. n. Potitus

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Status

• Patrician

Relationships

son of

L. Valerius (298) L. f. L. n. Poplicola (tr. mil. c. p. 394) (RE)

brother of

? M. Valerius (299) L. f. L. n. Poplicola (cos. 355) (DPRR Team)

father of

P. Valerius (213) Laevinus (cos. 280) (RE)

Career

• Consul 331 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • In Livy Valerius' praenomen is T., but in Fast. Cap. and Diod., C. In some annals, according to Livy, the cognomen of the Consul Valerius was given as Flaccus (cf. Münzer Gent. Val. 38, no. 12), but in Fast. Cap. Potitus was clearly favored for both the Consulship and the post of Master of Horse. In this office Livy found L. Valerius, presumably identical with L. Valerius Flaccus, Mag. Eq. 321. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Liv. 8.18.1; Diod. 17.74.1; Fast. Cap. (names entire, except Val[e]rius); Chr. 354 (Cotito or Potito et Marcello); Fast. Hyd. (Potito et Marcello); so also Chr. Pasc.; Oros. 3.10.1; Cassiod.; Degrassi 34f., 107f., 412f. They investigated numerous cases of poisoning (Liv. 8.18.4-11; Val. Max. 2.5.3; Augustin. CD 3.17; Oros. 3.10.1-3). Marcellus is the first of the plebeian Claudii. On Valerius, see Münzer, Gent. Val. 38, no. 10, cf. no. 12. (Broughton MRR I)
• Magister Equitum? 331 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • Liv. 8.18.13 (with praenomen L.); Fast. Cap., posteaquam cos. abiit; Degrassi 34f., 107, 412f. See note 1. (Broughton MRR I)
• Aedilis Curulis 329 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • C. Valerius Potitus is the only C. Valerius known during this generation from the consular lists. It is uncertain under which Consuls to list him, since new Consuls took office on the Kalends of Quinctilis (Liv. 8.20.3) and Flavius' festival celebrating his acquittal is stated to fall between the entrance into office of the Consuls of 328 and the elections for the Tribunate of the Plebs, so before December of this year. I have assumed that the trial took place before the Kalends of Quinctilis. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Prosecuted unsuccessfully M. Flavius "crimine stupratae matris familiae" (Val. Max. 8.1.7, A. Flavius; cf. Liv. 8.22.2-4). See Münzer, Gent. Val. 38, 11, cf. 10. (Broughton MRR I)

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