Flaccus
Fulvius. The name of two distinguished families in
the Fulvia and Valeria gentes. Many of the members of both families held the highest offices
in the State; but the best known are:
1.
M. Fulvius Flaccus, the friend of the Gracchi, consul in B.C.
125, and one of the triumvirs for carrying into execution the agrarian law of Tib. Gracchus.
He was slain, together with C. Gracchus, in B.C. 121. (See
Gracchus.)
2.
L. Valerius Flaccus, consul in B.C. 100 with Marius, when he took
an active part in putting down the insurrection of Saturninus. In B.C. 86 he was chosen
consul in place of Marius, but was put to death by his soldiers at the instigation of
Fimbria.
3.
Calpurnius, a rhetorician of the time of the
emperor Hadrian. He is the author of fifty-one
declamationes, usually
printed with those of Quintilian. (See
Quintilianus.)
4.
C. Valerius Flaccus, a native of Padua, who lived in the time of
Vespasian, and wrote the
Argonautica, an unfinished heroic poem, in eight
books, on the Argonautic expedition, which is extant, and of which the best editions are
those of Wagner
(Göttingen, 1805), Thilo
(Halle, 1863),
Schenkl
(Berlin, 1871), and Bährens
(Leipzig, 1875). The
poem is a free imitation of Apollonius Rhodius, and is in style animated, rhetorical, and
rich.
5.
Granius. See
Papirius.
