Lucius Volumnius Flamma Violens [SEP] position held
Lucius Volumnius Flamma Violens
Lucius Volumnius Flamma Violens was a consul of the Roman Republic, a "novus homo" ("new man") who was the first consul to come from his plebeian "gens". Volumnius served as consul twice, in 307 BC and 296 BC, both times in partnership with the patrician Appius Claudius Caecus. He took an active role in leading Roman forces during the Third Samnite War.
Background.
According to Roman tradition, membership of the Roman Senate, the city's magistracies
Aulus Verginius, "tribunus plebis" in 395 BC, together with his colleague, Quintus Pomponius Rufus, opposed a measure to establish a colony at Veii. Two years later, the tribunes were condemned and fined for their position.
- Aulus Verginius, one of the patrician Verginii; his daughter, Verginia, went over to the plebeians.
- Verginia A. f., a patrician by birth, married the plebeian Lucius Volumnius Flamma Violens, who was consul in 307 and 296 BC. She dedicated a chapel in which