Gaius Valerius Flaccus (consul 93 BC)

Gaius Valerius Flaccus was a Roman consul in 93 BCE.

He was elected praetor urbanus in 98 BCE, and, on the authority of the senate, he brought a bill before the people that Calliphana, of Velia, should receive the Roman franchise.

In 93 BCE he was consul, with Marcus Herennius, and afterwards he succeeded Titus 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 senators in the senate-house, because they refused to join the people, Flaccus took possession of the town by surprise, and put to death all those who had taken part in burning the senate-house.

References

Cicero Pro Balbo 24
Schol. Bob. ad Cic. p. Flacc. p. 233, ed. Orelli
Appian, The Spanish Wars 100

Preceded by Gaius Coelius Caldus and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus	Consul of the Roman Republic with Marcus Herennius 93 BCE	Succeeded by Gaius Claudius Pulcher and Marcus Perperna

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