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FLACCUS. writers are of opinion that he is the same as L. I'oniponius Flaccus, but this opinion is irrecon- cileable with chronology. (Comp. Ov. ex Pont. iv. 9. 75 ; Masson, Vit. Ovid, ad ann. 769.) [L. S.] FLACCUS, L. RUTI'LIUS, known only from a coin, which is given below. The obverse bears the head of Pallas with Flac. ; the reverse, Victory in a biga, with L. Rvtili. FLACCUS. FLACCUS, SrCULUS, an author of whom some fragments are preserved in the collection of Agrivip/nsores. [Frontinus.J He was an agri- mensor by profession, and probably lived shortly after the roign of Nerva. (Fabric. Bibl. Lat. vol. iii. p. 512, ed. Emesti.) Of the particulars of his life nothing certain is known, and there is no proof that, as Barthius supposed, he was a Chris- tian. In some manuscripts he is named Saeculus Flaccus, but this variation seems to be merely a corrupt spelling. He wrote a treatise entitled De Conditionibus A(]rorum., of which the commencement, perhaps curtailed and interpolated, is preserved in the col- lection of Agrimensores. It displays considerable legal knowledge, and contains much interesting information. It treats of the distinctions between coloniae, municipia, and praefecturae, between ager occupatorius and ager arcifinius, &c. ; and of the distinctions in the mode of limitatio correspond- ing to distinctions in the condition of the land. It is confined to land in Italy. Goesius thinks that the author also wrote on land out of Italy, and that the fragment we possess ought to be en- titled De Conditionibus Ayr or inn Ituliae. From the two parts of the work of Siculus Flaccus, and from some similar work of Frontinus, he supposes that the treatise De Coloniis {Rei Agrariae Atic- tores, p. 102, Goes.) was chiefly compiled, since that compilation cites a Liber Conditionum Italiae, and is ascribed in some manuscripts to the hybrid Julius Frontinus Siculus. Some fragments of the same, or of a very similar work, have found their way, probably by an acci- dental transposition of leaves, into the so-called Liber Simplici (pp. 76, 86, 87, Goes.), which is supposed by modem critics to be a compilation of Aggenus Urbicus. A similar transposition has happened in another instance. A treatise De Coniroversiis Ayrorum., not unlike (although inferior to) the treatise of Frontinus on the same subject, was first published by Blume in the Rheinisches Museum fur Jurinpru- denz., vol. v. pp. 142 — 170. In this treatise, in the midst of the Controversia de Fine., is a long passage of Siculus Flaccus, interpolated from the fragment De Conditionibus Ayrorum (from eryo ut dixi, p. 4, to vide saepe necessariae, p. 9, Goes.). The whole treatise in which this interpolation occurs was attributed by Rudorffto Siculus Flaccus ; but Blume, in conformity with the statement of the Codex Arcerianus.. assigns it to Hyginus. The fragment De Conditionibus Ayrorum is fol- lowed (p. 26, Goes.) by two lists of different kinds of agri and limites, entitled respectively Nomina Ayrorum and Nomina Limitum. These are pro- bably the work of some subsequent compiler. The remains of Siculus Flaccus may be found in the collections of the Agrimensores by Tumebus (4to. Paris, 1554), Rigaltius (4to. Lutet. 1614), Goesius (4to. Amst. 16/4), and C. Giraud (8vo. Paris, 1843). A separate edition of the fragment De Conditionibus Ayrorum was published by J. C. Schwarzius (4to. Coburg, 1711). [J. T."^ G.] FLACCUS, STATI'LIUS {ZraTiKKios ^k6.k- Kos)., the author of some epigrams in the Greek Anthology, of whom we know nothing, except what his name implies, that he was a Roman. There are eight epigrams under his name, and also one with the superscription TvWiov ^Aukkov, and three inscribed simply, ^Aa/cKou. (Bruncky Ana/. vol. ii. p. 262 ; Jacoha, A?iih. Graec. vol. ii. p. 238, vol. xiii. p. 955 ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 495.) [P. S.] FLACCUS, L. TARQUI'TIUS, was magister equitum to the dictator, L. Quintius Cincinnatus, in B.C. 458. Although he belonged to a patrician gens, he was very poor, but was a distinguished warrior. (Liv, iii. 27 ; Dionys. x. 24.) [L. S.] FLACCUS, TI'BULUS, a writer of mimes, whose age and history are both unknown. A trochaic tetrameter verse from a niimus entitled Melaene., is the only relic of his poems. It is cited under the word " Capularem," by Fulgentius. {Eoq)osit. ant. Serm. p. 564, Nonii Mercer; Bothe, Poet. Seen. Lat. vol. v. p. 273.) [W. B. D.] FLACCUS, VALE'RIUS. 1. L. Valerius Flaccus, was magister equitum to the dictator, M. Aemilius Papus, in B. c. 321. (Liv. ix. 7.) 2. L. Valerius M. p. L. n. Flaccus, was con- sul in B. c. 261, with T. Otacilius Crassus, and carried on the war in Sicily against the Carthagi- nians with little success. (Polyb. i. 20.) 3. P. Valerius L. f. M. n. Flaccus, son of No. 2, was consul in B. c. 227, the year in which the number of praetors was raised to four. (Gell. iv. 3 ; Liv. Fpif. 20.) 4. P. Valerius Flaccus, was sent in b. c. 218, with Q. Baebius Tamphilus, as ambassador to Spain to remonstrate with Hannibal for attack- ing Saguntum, and thence proceeded to Carthage to announce the intention of the Romans, if Han- nibal should not be checked in his proceedings. In B. c. 215 he commanded as legate a detachment of troops, under the consul, M. Claudius Marcellus, at Nola, and distinguished himself in the battle fought there against Hannibal. Shortly after we find him commanding a Roman squadron of 25 sail off the coast of Calabria, where he discovered the embassy which Hannibal sent to Philip of Macedonia, and got possession of letters and documents containing the terms of the treaty between Hannibal and the king. His fleet was increased in consequence, and he was ordered not only to protect the coast of Italy, but also to watch the proceedings of Ma- cedonia. During the siege of Capua, when Han- nibal marched towards Rome, Flaccus gave the prudent advice not to withdraw all the troops from Capua, and his opinion was adopted. (Liv. xxi. 6, xxiii. 16, 34, 38, xxvi, 8 ; Cic. Phi/ipp. v. 10.) 5. Valerius Flaccus, served as tribune of the soldiers under the consul Q. Fulvius Flaccus, in B. c. 212, and distinguished himself by his bravery and boldness during the attack on the camp of Hanno near Beneventum (Liv. xxv. 14). 6. C. Valerius P. f. L. n. Flaccus, was inaugu-