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Flaccus

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Flaccus , family of the ancient Roman gens of Fulvius. Marcus Fulvius Flaccus, a Roman consul in 264 BC, was the founder of the family. His son, Quintus Fulvius Flaccus, was Roman consul four times (237, 224, 212, 209 BC), censor (231), pontifex maximus [high priest] (216), and urban praetor (215). In the Second Punic War he defeated (211) the Carthaginians near Beneventum, captured (211) Capua, and overcame (209) Hannibal's garrisons in Lucania and Bruttium. Cnaeus Fulvius Flaccus, Quintus's brother, was convicted of cowardice against Hannibal in 210 and went into voluntary exile.... Read more
Marcus Verrius Flaccus
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition , fl. 20 BC, Roman grammarian. A freedman, he was appointed by Augustus to educate his grandsons and died at an advanced age during the reign of Tiberius. Of his numerous works, only one, his treatise De verborum significatu [on the meaning of words], survives, in an abridgment by Sextus Pompeius Read more
Persius
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition or Aulus Persius Flaccus , AD 34-AD 62, Roman satirical poet, b. Etruria. A member of a distinguished family, he went to Rome in boyhood, was educated there ... Read more

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