Lucius Valerius Potitus (consular Tribune 414 BC)
Lucius Valerius Potitus may refer to: * Lucius Valerius Potitus (consul 483 BC) * Lucius Valerius Potitus (consul 392 BC) * Lucius Valerius Poplicola Potitus Lucius Valerius Poplicola Potitus ( 450–449 BC) was a patrician who, together with Marcus Horatius Barbatus, opposed the second decemvirate in 449 BC when that body showed despotic tendencies. In honor of their efforts, the pair were elected c ...

Lucius Valerius Potitus (consul 483 BC)
Lucius Valerius Potitus was a Roman politician and general in the beginning of the Roman republic. He was the son of Marcus Valerius Volusus, who was consul in 505 BC. He held the office of quaestor parricidii in 485 BC in connection with the trial and execution of Spurius Cassius Vecellinus.Livy, ''Ab urbe condita'', 2.41 His role in the trial of Cassius made Valerius unpopular with the plebs, and yet the Roman Senate succeeded in having Valerius elected consul in 483 BC and again in 470 BC. According to Livy, during Valerius' first consulship in 483 BC the tribunes continued their attempts to increase their powers, but were at that time successfully resisted by the Roman Senate. In his second consulship in 470 BC Valerius led Roman troops against the Aequi. He unsuccessfully attempted to lead an assault on the Aequian army camp, and instead ravaged the Aequian territory. In 464 BC there were hostilities with the Aequi again and as both consuls were absent from Rome conducting ...
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Lucius Valerius Potitus (consul 392 BC)
Lucius Valerius Potitus ( 414–390 BC) was a five time consular tribune, in 414, 406, 403, 401 and 398 BC, and two times consul, in 393 and 392 BC, of the Roman Republic. Valerius belonged to the Valeria gens, one of the oldest and most prominent patrician gens of the early Republic. Filiations tell us that Valerius father was named Lucius and his grandfather was named Publius. Both are unattested in the consular lists and seems to have held no known political offices. It remains unclear of Valerius relation to his namesake, Lucius Valerius Poplicola Potitus, the consul of 449 BC but Ogilvie, in his reading of Livy, names him as Valerius father. There is a possibility, depending on how one reads the filiations, that the contemporary consular Gaius Valerius Potitus Volusus was his brother. Filiations indicate that Publius Valerius Potitus Poplicola, six time consular tribune, was the son of Valerius. Career Consular tribune (414–398 BC) Valerius first held the ''imperium'' ...
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