Publius Valerius Publicola
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Publius Valerius · Publicola
in the texts
Lucullus
Early Roman consul cited as an ancestral precedent invoked by popular agitators, in Lucullus's analogy.
They go back to Publius Valerius, who in the first year after the kings were driven out was consul;
On the Commonwealth
Roman consul whose reforms, including the law of appeal, safeguarded liberty after the fall of the kings
and with the same mind Publius Valerius both first ordered the rods to be lowered, when he had begun to speak in the assembly, and brought his own house down beneath the Velia, after he perceived that, because he had begun to build in a higher place of the Velia, in that very spot where King Tullus had dwelt, the people's suspicion was being stirred;
And so Publicola, that law concerning appeal having been carried, at once ordered the axes to be taken from the rods, and the next day chose Spurius Lucretius as his colleague in his stead, and, because he was older, bade his own lictors pass over to him, and was the first to establish that the lictors should walk before the single consuls in alternate months, lest there should be more insignia of …
The Rights of War and Peace
Roman consul in whose consulship the muster oath was sworn.
In the Consulship of Publius Valerius, the Roman people had taken an oath to muster at the command of the Consul.