Marcus Valerius Volusus

Marcus Valerius Volusi filius was allegedly 505 BC Consul of the young Roman Republic. He was the brother of the ( also legendary ) Publius Valerius Poplicola and belonged to the patrician family of the Valerii. Being in the fasti consulares of traditional epithet Volusus is not used elsewhere. The ancient biographer Plutarch, Valerius had 509 BC the consul Marcus Horatius pulvillus prevented from performing the consecration of a temple of Jupiter, in order to preserve the honor of his brother.

He allegedly participated with Titus Lucretius in the war against Porsena, but said to have been carried wounded from the battle (so Dionysius of Halicarnassus ). Plutarch, this episode is missing.

Both the fasti triumphant and the historian Livy, Plutarch and Dionysius agree that Valerius had held a triumph after a victory over the Sabines; only Plutarch writes that the triumphal Valerius alone, while the remaining sources assign him his counterpart. Plutarch and Dionysius report that Valerius said to have received from the Roman church a piece of land and the cost to build the house, which was not common so far in Rome.

About his death at the Battle of Lake Regillus according to an embassy to the Latins there in Livy and Dionysius reports, however, have the tendency, indeed legendary character.