Marcus Fulvius Flaccus was a
consul
Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states throu ...
in 264 BC. In the tradition of
Livy
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, his praenomen is "Quintus".
In his consulship, Fulvius Flaccus concluded the siege of
Volsinii
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(
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: Velzna), which his predecessor
Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges had started, and been killed while conducting; after plundering the city, he ordered it razed and the survivors relocated. The ''
Fasti Triumphales
The ''Acta Triumphorum'' or ''Triumphalia'', better known as the ''Fasti Triumphales'', or Triumphal Fasti, is a calendar of Roman magistrates honoured with a celebratory procession known as a ''triumphus'', or triumph, in recognition of an impor ...
'' record he celebrated a triumph on 1 November 264 BC. In the 1960s, his ''donarium'' was recovered from
Sant'Omobono in Rome, and the number of scars on the top of the monument confirm the quantity of statues he brought from Volsinii to Rome.
[; ] It was the last
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city to be taken by the Romans.
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3rd-century BC Roman consuls
3rd-century BC Roman generals
Marcus consul 490 AUC
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