A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

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writers are of opinion that he is the same as L. Aqgrorm and Nomina Limiturn. -These are proPomponius Flaccus, but this opinion is irrecon- bably the work of some subsequent compiler.
cileable with chronology. (Comp. Orv. ex Pont. iv. The remains of Siculus Flaccus may be found in
9. 75; Masson, Vit. Ovid. ad ann. 769.) [L. S.] the collections of the Agrimensores by Turnebus
FLACCUS, L. RUTI'LIUS, known. only (4to. Paris, 1554), Rigaltius (4to. Lutet. 1614),
from a coin, which is given below. The obverse Goesius (4to. Amst. 1674), and C. Giraud (8vo.
bears the head of Pallas with FLAC.; the reverse, Paris, 1843). A separate edition of the fragment
Victory in a biga, with L. RVTILL De Conditionibus Agrorum was published by J. C..
Schwarzius (4to. Coburg, 1711). [J. T. G.]
FLACCUS, STATI'LIUS ('Tav'rAAos,AcahK~ 7. ticos), the author of some epigrams in the Greek
l, Anthology, of whom we know nothing, except
what his name implies, that he was a Roman.
~lX0 S D There are eight epigrams under his name, and also
Zoo~o ~ o~oo ~ one with the superscription TvAAov c Aditcov, and
three inscribed simply, 4,Andcicou. (Brunck, Anal.
FLACCUS, SI'CULUS, an author of whom vol. ii. p. 262; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. ii. p. 238,
some fragments are preserved in the collection of vol. xiii. p. 955; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p.
Agrinensores. [FRONTINUS.] He was an agri- 495.) [P. S.]
mensor by profession, and probably lived shortly FLACCUS, L. TARQUI'TIUS, was magister
after the reign of Nerva; (Fabric. Bibl. Lat. vol. equitum to the dictator, L. Quintius Cilcinnatus,
iii. p. 512, ed. Ernesti.) Of the particulars of his in B.C. 458. Although he belonged to a patrician
life nothing certain is known, and there is no gens, he was very poor, but was a distinguished
proof that, as Barthius supposed, he was a Chris- warrior. (Liv. iii. 27; Dionys. x. 24.) [L. S.]
tian. In some manuscripts he is named Saeculus FLACCUS, TI'BULUS, a writer of mimes,
Flaccus, but this variation seems to be merely a whose age and history are both unknown. A
corrupt spelling. trochaic tetrameter verse from a mimus entitled
He wrote a treatise entitled De Conditionibus Melaene, is the only relic of his poems. It is
Agrorum, of which the commencement, perhaps cited under the word " Capularem," by Fulgentius.
curtailed and interpolated, is preserved in the col- (Evaosit. ant. Serin. p. 564, Nonii Mercer; -Bothe,
lection of Agrimensores. It displays considerable Poet. Seen. Lat. vol. v. p. 273.) [W. B. D.]
legal knowledge, and contains much interesting FLACCUS, VALE'RIUS. 1. L.VA.LERIUS
information. It treats of the distinctions between FLACCUS, was magister equitum to the dictator,
coloniae, municipia, and praefecturae, between M. Aemilius Papus, in B. c. 321. (Liv. ix. 7.)
ager occupatorius and ager arcifinius, &c.; and of 2. L. VALERIUS M. F. L. N. FLACCUS, was conthe distinctions in the mode of limitatio correspond- sul in B. c. 261, with T. Otacilius Crassus, and
ing to distinctions in the condition of the land. carried on the war in Sicily against the CarthagiIt is confined to land in Italy. Goesius thinks nians with little success. (Polyb. i. 20.)
that the author also wrote on land out of Italy, 3. P. VALERIUS L. F. M. N. FLACCUS,. son of
and that the fragment we possess ought to be en- No. 2, was consul in B. c. 227, the year in which
titled De Conditionibus Agroruen Italiae. From the number of praetors was raised to four. (Gell.
the two parts of the work of Siculus Flaccus, and iv. 3; Liv. Epit. 20.)
from some similar work of Frontinus, he supposes 4. P. VALERIUS FLACCUS, was sent in B. C.
that the treatise De Coloniis (Rei gprariae Aue- 218, with Q. Baebius Tamphilus, as ambassador
tores, p. 102, Goes.) was chiefly compiled, since to Spain to remonstrate with Hannibal for attackthat compilation cites a Liber Conditionum Italiae, ing Saguntum, and thence proceeded to Carthage
and is ascribed in some manuscripts to the hybrid to announce the intention of the Romans, if HanJulius Frontinus Siculus. nibal should not be checked in his proceedings. In
Some fragments of the same, or of a very similar B. c. 215 he commanded as legate a detachment of
work, have found their way, probably by an acci- troops, under the consul. M. Claudius Marcellus, at
dental transposition of leaves, into the so-called Nola, and distinguished himself in the battle fougllt
Liber Simplici (pp. 76, 86, 87, Goes.), which is there against Hannibal. Shortly after we find hiln
supposed by modern critics to be a compilation of commanding a Roman squadron of 2.5 sail off the
Aggenus Urbicus. coast of Calabria, where he discovered the embassy
A similar transposition has happened in another which Hannibal sent to Philip of Macedonia, and
instance. A treatise De Controversiis Agrorum, got possession of letters and documents containing
not unlike (although inferior to) the treatise of the terms of the treaty between Hannibal and the
Frontinus on the same subject, was first published king. His fleet was increased in consequence, and
by Blume in the Rheinischles Museum fhir Jurispru- he was ordered not only to protect the coast of
denz, vol. v. pp. 142-170. In this treatise, in Italy, but also to watch the proceedings of Mathe midst of the Controversia de Fine, is a long cedonia. During the siege of Capua, when Hanpassage of Siculus Flaccus, interpolated from the nibal marched towards Rome, Flaccus gave the
fragment De Conditionibus Agrorum (from erqa ut prudent advice not to withdraw all the troops from
diri, p. 4, to viae saepe necessariae, p. 9, Goes..- Capua, and his opinion was adopted. (Liv. xxi.
The whole treatise in which this interpolation 6, xxiii. 16, 34, 38, xxvi, 8; Cic. Philipp. v. 10.)
occurs was attributed by Rudorffto Siculus Flaccus; 5. VALERIUS FLACCUS, served as tribune of the
-but Blume, in conformity with the statement of the soldiers under the consul Q. Fulvius Flaccus, in
Codex Arcerianus, assigns it to Hyginus. B. C. 212, and distinguished himself by his bravery
The fragment De Conditionibus Agrorum is fol- and boldness during the attack on the camp of
lowed (p. 26, Goes.) by two lists of different kinds Hanno near Beneventum (Liv. xxv. 14).
of agri and limites, entitled respectively Nomina 6. C. VALERIUS P. F. L. N. FLACCIS, was inaugu