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VALE0716 M'. Valerius (247) M. f. M. n. Maximus Messalla

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Status

• Patrician

Relationships

son of

? M. Valerius (244) M. f. M. n. Maximus Corvinus? (cos. 312) (Zmeskal 2009)

father of

? M. Valerius (251) M'. f. M. n. (Maximus) Messalla (cos. 226) (Zmeskal 2009)

Career

• Consul 263 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • Valerius received the cognomen Messala in this office (Fast. Cap.). On the mention of Manius (M. codd.) Valerius, Consul, in Naevius fr. 32, see Strzelecki, De Naev. B. P. Carm., 7f.; Rowell, AJPh 68 (1947) 26, and 30-32. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Fast. Cap. (names entire); Act. Tr., on Messala; Polyb. 1.16.1; Eutrop. 2.19; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; Zon. 8.9; see Degrassi, 40f., 115, 432f. Valerius captured many Sicilian towns, received the submission of Syracuse, and celebrated a triumph over the Carthaginians and King Hiero (Polyb. 1.16-17; Zon. 8.9; cf. Naevius, fr. 32, with praenomen M.; Liv. Per. 16; Diod. 23.4; Flor. 1.18.6;{204} Eutrop. 2.19; Oros. 4.7.2; and on the triumph, Piso fr. 29 Peter; Varro, in Plin. NH 7.214, with praenomen M.; Cic. Fam. 14.2.2; Vat. 21, and Schol. Bob. ad loc.; Act. Tr., Degrassi, 74f., 547f.; Plin. NH 35.22; Censorin. 23.7; Eutrop. 2.19). Otacilius also campaigned in Sicily (Polyb. 1.16-17; Frontin. Str. 4.1.19; Eutrop. 2.19; Zon. 8.9). On Valerius, see Münzer, Gent. Val. 50, no. 51; on Otacilius, Lübker no. 1. (Broughton MRR I)
• Triumphator 263 (Rich 2014) Expand
  • Triumph de Poeneis et rege Siculorum Hierone. MRR I.203-4, Itgenshorst no. 127, Rich no. 126. (Rich 2014)
• Censor 252 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
  • Fast. Cap., Degrassi 42f., 116, 434f. They expelled 16 from the Senate (Liv. Per. 18), and reduced 400 knights to aerarii for disobedience in Sicily (Val. Max. 2.9.7; Frontin. Str. 4.1.22; cf. Val. Max. 6.3.12; Plut. RQ 14, on Sempronius). On Valerius, see Münzer, Gent. Val. 50, no. 51. (Broughton MRR I)
• Princeps Senatus c. 225 (Ryan 1998) Expand
  • p. 223 (Ryan 1998)

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