1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
VALERIUS, PUBLIUS, surnamed PUBLICOLA (or POPLICOLA), " friend of the people," the colleague of Brutus in the consulship in the first year of the Roman republic (509 B.C.). According to Livy and Plutarch, his family, whose ancestor Volusus had settled in Rome at the time of King Tatius, was of Sabine origin. He took a prominent part in the expulsion of the Tarquins, and though not originally chosen as the colleague of Brutus he soon took the place of Tarquinius Collatinus. On the death of Brutus, which left him sol…
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