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Quintus Fulvius Flaccus (consul 179 BCE)

d. 172 BCE · 2nd century BCE

Quintus Fulvius Flaccus was a Roman general and politician who, as praetor in Hispania Citerior from 182 to 180 BCE, fought hard campaigns against the Celtiberians in the First Celtiberian War. He was consul in 179 BCE and censor in 174 BCE, when he controversially took marble tiles from a temple in southern Italy for his temple of Fortuna Equestris in Rome.

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