Marcus Valerius Corvus

Marcus Valerius Maximus Corvus (c. 371 BC; † ostensibly to 271 BC) was a Roman folk hero whose honor list is surprisingly long. Probably the annalist Valerius Antias wrote to him some offices that are really different, maybe namesakes, had clothed.

349 BC defeated as a military tribune Valerius a huge Gaul in single combat, where he got help from a crow or a raven. He therefore received the cognomen Corvus ( Latin for " raven "). The following year he was at the age of 23 years consul. 346 BC he was consul again and defeated the Volscians. Three years later he held for the third time the consulate and defeated the Samnites. 342 BC, he was dictator, during his fourth consulate, he captured 335 BC the city Cales. Twice, in 332 and 320 BC, he served as Interrex the consular elections.

Other offices he had exercised a great age, are actually probably his son Marcus Valerius Maximus ( Corvinus ) attributable to: 301 BC he is a dictator the mutinous Roman garrison at Capua by the lex Valeria de provocatione have brought to relent. This law was introduced the following year and confirmed the earlier legislation, that no Roman citizen could be punished or killed, without giving him the opportunity to provocation. 300 BC he was consul for the fifth time and have the Aequians defeated, as in the following year 299 BC as Suffektkonsul the Etruscans. He had become a hundred years old.