Quintus Fulvius Flaccus (consul 179 BCE)
Quintus Fulvius Flaccus (died 172 BC) was a plebeian Roman consul, consul of the Roman Republic in 179 BC. Because of his successes in Spain and Liguria, he celebrated two triumphs. Although his cursus honorum, political career was a success, he was plagued by controversy and suffered a mental breakdown that culminated in suicide. According to his recorded filiation "Q. f. M. n.", Fulvius was the son of Quintus Fulvius Flaccus (consul 237 BC), Quintus Fulvius Flaccus, four times consul beginning in 237 BC, and grandson of Marcus Fulvius Flaccus (consul 264 BC), Marcus Fulvius Flaccus, consul of 264 BC. Early career As curule aedile in 184 BC, Fulvius Flaccus created a furor by actively campaigning for the praetorship vacated by Gaius Decimius Flaccus, C. Decimius Flaccus, who died early in his term. The holding of two Roman magistrates, magistracies in a single year was prohibited, and Fulvius further violated decorum by campaigning ''Toga#Varieties, sine toga candida'' ("without ...
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Plebeian
In ancient Rome, the plebeians (also called plebs) were the general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census, or in other words " commoners". Both classes were hereditary. Etymology The precise origins of the group and the term are unclear, but may be related to the Greek, ''plēthos'', meaning masses. In Latin, the word is a singular collective noun, and its genitive is . Plebeians were not a monolithic social class. Those who resided in the city and were part of the four urban tribes are sometimes called the , while those who lived in the country and were part of the 31 smaller rural tribes are sometimes differentiated by using the label . ( List of Roman tribes) In ancient Rome In the annalistic tradition of Livy and Dionysius, the distinction between patricians and plebeians was as old as Rome itself, instituted by Romulus' appointment of the first hundred senators, whose descendants became the patriciate. Modern hypotheses ...
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