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i58 FLACCUS. FLACCUS.
rated as flamen Dialis, in B. c. 209, against his own - 11. L. VALERIUS FLACCUS, probably a son of
will,by the pontifex maximus, P. Licinius. He was a No. 10, and the father of L. Valerius Flaccus,
young man of a'wanton and dissolute character, and whom Cicero defended. [See No. 15.] When he
for this reason shunned by his own relatives; but was curule aedile, the tribune, Decianus, brought
after his appointment to the priesthood, his conduct an accusation against him. In B. C. 100 he was
altered so much for-the better, and his watchfulness the colleague of C. Marius, in his sixth consulship.
and care in the performance of his duties were so During the disturbances of L. Appuleius Saturnigreat, that he was admitted into the senate. In nus, the consuls were ordered by the senate to
B. C. 199 he was created curule aedile; but being avail themselves of the assistance of the tribunes
flamen dialis, he could not take the official oath, and and praetors, for the purpose of maintaining the
his brother, L. Valerins Flaccus (No. 7), who was dignity of the republic. In consequence of this,
then praetor designatus, took it for him. (Liv. Valerius Flaccus put to death Saturninus, Glaucia,
xxvii. 8, xxxi. 50, xxxii. 7.) and others of the revolutionary party. Four years
7. L. VALERIUS P. F. L. N. FLACCUS, a brother of after these occurrences, B. C. 97, he was censor
No. 6, was curule aedile in B.C. 201, and in the year with M. Antonius, the orator. In B. C. 86, when
following he was elected praetor, and received Sicily Marius had died, in his seventh consulship, L. Vaas his province. In B. C. 1-95 he was made ponti- lerius Flaccus was chosen by Cinna as his colleague,
fex, in the place of M. Cornelius Cethegus. In the in the place of Marius, and received the comrnsame year he was invested with the consulship, mission to go into Asia, to resist Sulla, and to bring
together with M. Porcius Cato, and received Italy the war against Mithridates to a close. He was
for his province. During the summer he carried on accompanied on this expedition by C. Flavius
the war against the Boians, and defeated them; Fimbria. Flaccus was avaricious, and very cruel
8000 of them were slain, and the rest dispersed in in his punishments, whence he was so unpopular
their villages. Flaccus afterwards spent his time with the soldiers, that many of them deserted to
on the banks of the Po, at Placentia and Cremona, Sulla, and the rest were kept together only by the
being occupied in restoring what had been de- influence of Fimbria, who, taking advantage of the
stroyed by war. He remained in the north of Italy state of affairs, played the part of an indulgent
also in the year B. C. 194, as proconsul, and in the commander, and won the favour of the solneighbourhood of Milan he fought with great suc- diers. While yet at Byzantium, Fimbria had a
cess against the Gauls, Insubrians, and Boians, who quarrel with the quaestor, and the consul, Flaccus,
had crossed the Po under their chief, Dorulacus: being chosen as arbiter, decided in favour of the
10,000 enemies are said to have been killed. In quaestor. Fimbria was so indignant, that he
in. c. 191, although a consular, he - served as legate threatened to return to Rome, whereupon Flaccus
under the consul, M'. Acilius Glabrio, in the war dismissed him from his service. While the latter
against the Aetolians and Macedonians. With was sailing to Chalcedon, Fimbria, who had re2000 picked foot soldiers, he was ordered to occupy mained at Byzantium, created a mutiny among the
Rhoduntia and Tichius. The Macedonians, by a, soldiers; Flaccus, on being informed of it, hastily
mistake, approached his camp too closely and, on returned to chastise the offender, but was comdiscovering the enemy, they took to flight in the pelled to take to flight. He reached Nicomedeia,
greatest disorder. Flaccug pursued them, and and shut the gates against his pursuer, but Fimbria
made great haveo-among them. In B. c. 184 he had him dragged forth, and murdered him: his
was the colleague of M. Porcius Cato in the cen- head was thrown into the sea, and his body was
sorship, and in the' same year he was made princeps left unburied. Most authorities place the murder
senatus. He died as pontifex in B. C. 180, and of Flaccus in the year of his consulship, B.C. 86,
was succeeded by Q. Fabius Labeo. (Liv. xxxi. 4, but Velleius (ii. 23, 24) places it a year later. At
49, 50, xxxii. 1, xxxiii. 42, 43, xxxiv. 21, 46, the beginning of his consulship, Flaccus had carried
xxxvi. 17, 19, xxxix. 40, &c., 52, xl. 42; Polyb. a law, by which it was decreed that debts should
xx. 9, &c.; Plut. Cat. Maj. 12; Nep. Cat. 2; be cancelled, and only a quadrans be paid to the
Oros. iv.'20.) creditors, and his violentdeath was regarded as a
8. L. VALERIUS FLACCUS, a son of No. 4, one just punishment for his iniquitous law. (Liv. Epit.
of the triumvirs appointed to conduct 6000 families 82; Appian, Mitlsrid. 51, &c., Bell. Civ. i. 75;
as colonists to Placentia and Cremona, in B. C. 190, Plut. Sull. 33; Oros. vi. 2 -; Cic. pro Flace. 23, 25,
those places having become almost deserted by the 32, pro Rabin. perd. 7, 10, in Cat. i. 2, Brut. 62;
late war. (Liv. xxxvii. 46.) Val. Max. ii. 9. ~ 5; Dion Cass. Fragm. Peir. No.
9. L.VALERIUS FLACCUS,was consul in B.C. 152, 127, p. 51, ed. Reimar.) It was probably this
but died during his magistracy. (J. Obseq. 77.) Valerius Flaccus who levied the legions which
10. L. VALERIUS FLACCUS, was flamen Mar- were called, after him, Valerianae, and which are
tialis, and received the'consulship in B. c. 131, with mentioned in the war of Lucullus against MithriP. Licinius Crassus, then pontifex maximus. Flac- dates. (Liv. Epit. 98; Dion Cass. xxxv. 14, 15,
cus wished to undertake the command in the 16, xxxvi. 29; Sail. Hist. v.)
war against Aristonicus in Asia, but his colleague 12. L. VALERIUS FLACCUS. When Sulla enfined him for deserting the sacra entrusted to his tered Rome, after the defeat of his enemies, he
care. The people, before whom the question was ordered the senate to appoint an interrex: the
brought for decision, cancelled the fine, but com- choice fell upon L. Valerius Flaccus, who immepelled the flamen Flaccus to obey the pontiff Cras- diately brought forward and carried a law that
sus. (Cic. Phil. xi. 8.) He may possibly be the Sulla should be invested with the supreme power
same as the one whose quaestor, M. Aemilius Scau- (the dictatorship) for an- indefinite number of
rus, wanted to bring an accusation against him years, and that all the arrangements he had pre(Cic. Divin. in Caec. 19), though it is uncertain viously made should be sanctioned, and binding as
whether Scaurus was quaestor in the praetorship or laws. Sulla, on entering upon the dictatorship,
consulship of Flaccus.' made Flaccus his magister equitum. (Plut. Sulla,