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FLACCUS. FLACCUtS. 159
83; Appian, B. C. i. 97, &c.; Cic. de Leg. Agr. iii. specimens are given below. The first has on the
2, ad Att. viii. 3; Schol. Gronov. ad Roscian. p. obverse the head of Pallas, and on the reverse
435, ed. Orelli.)
13. C. VALERIUS FLACCUS was praetor urbanus
in B. C. 98, and, on the authority of the senate, he
brought a bill before the people that'Calliphana, of
Velia, should receive the Roman franchise. [CALLIPHANA.] In B.C. 93 he was consul, with M.
Herennius, and afterwards he succeeded T. Didius
as proconsul in Spain. As the Celtiberians, who,had been most cruelly treated by his predecessors,
revolted in the town of Belgida, and burnt all their second has on the obverse the head of Victory,
senators in the senate-house, because they refused second on the reverse the military standard of Victory,
to join the people, Flaccus took possession of the eage, between two othe military standards, with
town by surprise, and put to death all those who eagle, between two other military standards, with
had taken part in burning the senate-house. (Cic.
pro Balb. 24; Schol. Bob. ad Cic. p. Flacce. p. 233,
ed. Orelli; Appian, Hispan. 100.)
14. C. VALERIUS FLACCUS is called imperator
and propraetor of Gaul in B. C. 83, in the consul-
ship of L. Cornelius Scipio and C. Norbanus. (Cic.
pro Quint. 7.) He may possibly be the same as
No. 13.
15. L. VALERIUS FLACCUS, a son of No. 11, lerius Flaccus may be the same as No. 14, whom
served in Cilicia as tribune of the soldiers, under Cicero calls Imperator. The third coin has on the
P. Servilius, in B. c. 78, and afterwards as quaestor, obverse the head of Victory, and on the reverse
under M. Calpurnius Piso, in Spain. (Cic. pro Mars standing between an apex (Diet. ofAnt. s.v,)
Flace. 3.) He was praetor in B. c. 63, the year of and an ear of corn, with L. VALERI FLACCI. The
Cicero's consulship, -who.through his assistance got apex shows that this L. Flaccus was a flamen, and
possession of the documents which the Allobrogian he may therefore have been either the L. Flaccus
ambassadors had received from the accomplices of consul-in B. C. 131 [No. 10], who was a flamen of
Catiline. In the year after his praetorship he had Mars, or the L. Flaccus, a contemporary of Cicero
the administration of Asia, in which he was suc- [No. 18], who was also a flamen of Mars. (Eckceeded by Q. Cicero. (Cic.pro Flacc. 13, 14, 21, hel, vol. v. p. 333.)
40.) In B. C. 59 he was accused by D. Laelius of
having been guilty of extortion in his province of o
Asia; but Flaccus, although he was undoubtedly o
guilty, was defended by Cicero (in the oration pro ifa\ li
Flacco, which is still extant) and Q. Hortensius,
and was acquitted. (Comp. Cic. in Cat. iii. 2, 6;
ad Att. i. 19, ii. 25, in Pison, 23; the oration pro
Flacco; pro Plane. 11; Schol. Bob. p. Flace. p. 228;
Sallust, Cat. 45.)
16. C. VALERIUS FLACCUS, a friend of App. FLACCUJS, C. VALE'RIUS. All that is
Claudius Pulcher, whom Cicero saw in Cilicia B. C. known or that can be conjectured with plausibility
51. (Cic. ad Fam. iii. 4, 11.) in regard to this writer may be comprehended
17. L. VALERIUS FLACCUS, Sa son of No. 15. in a very few words. From the expressions of his
When Cicero defended his father, Lucius was yet friend Martial (i. 62, 77), we learn that he was a
a little boy, and the orator introduced him into native of Padua; from the exordium of his piece,
the court, for the purpose of exciting the pity of we infer that it was addressed to Vespasian, and
the judges. In the civil war between Caesar and published while Titus was achieving the subPompey, Flaccus fought on the side of the latter, jugation of Judea; from a notice in Quintilian,
and was killed in the battle of Dyrrhachium, B. C. Dodwell has drawn the conclusion that he must
~48. (Cic. pro Flace. 36, Orat, 38; Caes. B. C. have died about A. D. 88. The lines (v. 5),
iii. 53.)
18. Ld. VALERIUS FLACCUS, a flamen of Mars, a'" Phoebe, mone, si Cymaeae mihi conscia vatis
contemporary of Cicero, whose brother Quintus Stat casta cortina domo,"
had heard him give an account of a marvellous oc- whatever may be their import,are not in themselves
currence. (Cic. de Divin. i. 46; Varro, de L. L. sufficient to prove, as Pius and Heinsius imagine,
*vi. 21.) That he cannot be the same as the one that he was a member of the sacred college of the
*mentioned, No. 10, is evident from the dates. Eck- Quindecimviri; and the words Setinus Balbus,
hel (Doctr. 2Num. vol. v. p. 333) believes that he is affixed to his name in certain MSS., are much too
Lthe same as the Flaccus whom Cicero defended; doubtful in their origin and signification to serve
*but the latter is described by Cicero as praetor, as the basis of any hypothesis, even if we were
whereas our L. Valerius Flaccus is expressly called certain that they applied to the poet himself, and
Flaccus, the flamen of Mars, both by Cicero and not to some commentator on the text, or to some
Varro. individual who may at one time have possessed
19. P. VALERIUS FLACCUS, the accuser of the codex which formed the archetype of a family,
Carbo. (Cic. ad Fam. ix. 21.) [L. S.] -The only work of Flaccus now extant is an unThere are several coins of the Valeria gens be- -finished heroic poem in eight books, on the Argo.
longing to the family of the Flacci. Of these, three nautip expedition, in which he follows the general