Valerius Flaccus

Also known as: Valerius · Family: Roman · Role: statesman · First appears: Marcus Cato

Life events

Marcus Cato became consul with Valerius Flaccus and received governance of Hither Spain.(Marcus Cato · 📍 Hither Spain)
- With: Marcus Cato
- “Being chosen consul, with his friend and familiar Valerius Flaccus, the government of that part of Spain which the Romans call the Hither Spain, fell to his lot.”
The Romans elected Marcus Cato and Valerius Flaccus as censors.(Marcus Cato)
- With: Marcus Cato
- “And so truly great and so worthy of great men to be its leaders was, it would seem, the Roman people, that they did not fear the severity end grim countenance of Cato, but rejecting those smooth promisers who were ready to do all things to ingratiate themselves, they took him, together with Flaccus; obeying his recommendations not as though he were a candidate, but as if he had had the actual power of commanding and governing already.”

protégé: Marcus Cato “but, Valerius chiefly assisting his promotion, he first of all got appointed tribune in the army, and afterwards was made quaestor, or treasurer”
friends with Marcus Cato “Being chosen consul, with his friend and familiar Valerius Flaccus”

Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.