Lucius Valerius Flaccus (suffect Consul 86 BC) - Life and Career

Life and Career

Lucius Flaccus was a military tribune sometime before 100 BC. In 99, he was curule aedile. Upon completion of his term, he was prosecuted unsuccessfully by Decianus. The charges are vague and the case is perhaps best viewed in the context of several politically motivated prosecutions in the 90s that transferred the political violence of the preceding decade to the law courts. The trial did little to slow Flaccus's career. He was elected praetor by 92, and was praetor or propraetor in Asia around 92–91, within a few years of his brother Gaius having held the same post.

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