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L. Valerius Flaccus (cos. 86)

Carried the Lex Valeria de aere alieno - cancelling 3/4 of outstanding debt in response to the credit crisis. Also fought Mithridates VI.

🏛️ Career

  1. 99 BCE
    Aedile ·curule

    MT: Mentioned in Cicero’s Pro Flacco 77 (defending L. Valerius Flaccus in 59 BCE). For commentary, see the Bobbio scholia in Gustav Stangl pp. 95 and 105

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    C. Marius (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 86 BCE (Consul)

    L. Cornelius Cinna (cos. 87) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 86 BCE (Consul)

    L. Marcius Philippus (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 86 BCE (Consul)

    M. Perperna (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 86 BCE (Consul)

    L. Cornelius Sulla Felix (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 93 BCE (Praetor)

  2. 93 BCE
    Praetor ·suffect

    Broughton: MRR2: 92 Promagistrates note - 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.

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • See 92, Promagistrates.
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    C. Marius (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 86 BCE (Consul)

    L. Cornelius Cinna (cos. 87) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 86 BCE (Consul)

    L. Marcius Philippus (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 86 BCE (Consul)

    M. Perperna (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 86 BCE (Consul)

    L. Cornelius Sulla Felix (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 93 BCE (Praetor)

  3. 86 BCE
    Consul ·suffect · Co-consuls: C. Marius, L. Cornelius Cinna (cos. 87), M. Perperna, L. Marcius Philippus

    Broughton: Elected before February 5. Carried a law to permit debtors to settle debts for one fourth of the principal sum. 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. See Bennett, Cinna 45-50. (MRR2)

    Sources (1)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • CIL 12.2.891; cf. Fast. Cap., Degrassi 54f.. 130, 482f.; Vell. 2.23.2; cf. Cic. Font. 1.1; Quinct. 17; Sall. Cat. 33.2; see ESA-R 1.270f.; 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
    Career-overlap (5) Magistrates with the closest career overlap; red font indicates family member

    C. Marius (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 86 BCE (Consul)

    L. Cornelius Cinna (cos. 87) (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 86 BCE (Consul)

    L. Marcius Philippus (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 86 BCE (Consul)

    M. Perperna (1 year; raw 4.00, base 0.667, final 0.667): 86 BCE (Consul)

    L. Cornelius Sulla Felix (1 year; raw 3.00, base 0.500, final 0.500): 93 BCE (Praetor)

🏺 Family

  1. Siblings
    Gaius Valerius Flaccus (cos. 93)
  2. Children
    Lucius Valerius Flaccus