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Portrait of Quintus Valerius Soranus

Quintus Valerius Soranus

Tribune of the plebs in 82 BCE

🏛️ Career

  1. 82 BCE
    (aged 53)
    Tribune of the Plebs

    Broughton: A Tribune of the Plebs (Serv. Ad Aen. 1.277), who revealed the secret name of Rome, and soon expiated his offence by death (a). Cichorius identifies him with the scholar whom Pompey put to death in Sicily (b).

    Sources (2)
    • Broughton, MRR2
      • (a) Serv.; Plin. NH 3.65; Plut. Rom. Quaest. 61; Solin. 1.4; cf. Plin. NH 28.18; Macrob. Sat. 3.9.3 and 5; Lyd. Mens. 4.73
      • (b) Cic. De Or. 3.43; Plut. Pomp. 10.4; see Cichorius Hermes 41 [1906] 59; Niccolini, FTP 430f.

🏺 Family

No family relations recorded.