Lucius Valerius Flaccus (suffect consul 86 BC)

Lucius Valerius Flaccus (d. 85 BC) was the suffect consul who completed the term of Gaius Marius in 86 BC. He was sent as governor in that year to the Roman province of Asia, but was murdered in a mutiny by Fimbria during the turmoil of the Sullan civil wars and the Mithridatic Wars.

Flaccus is also known for the Lex Valeria de aere alieno, his legislation on debt reform during the Roman economic crisis of the 80s BC.

Lucius was the younger brother of the Gaius Valerius Flaccus who was consul in 93 BC; his son was the Lucius Valerius Flaccus (praetor 63 BC) who was defended by Cicero in the speech Pro Flacco. The older Lucius Valerius Flaccus who was consul in 100 BC and princeps senatus in 86 is a cousin.

Inscriptional evidence from Magnesia on the Maeander pertaining either to this Lucius Flaccus or to his son, who also was a governor of Asia, says he was married to a daughter of L. Saufeius and had a daughter named Valeria Paulla; his mother, a Baebia, is also commemorated. Flaccus is called ἀνθύπατος (anthupatos), a Greek term for proconsul, which would point to the father rather than the son defended by Cicero.

Lucius Flaccus was a military tribune sometime before 100 BC. In 99 BC, he was curule aedile. Upon completion of his term, he was prosecuted unsuccessfully by Decianus. The charges are vague and the case is perhaps best viewed in the context of several politically motivated prosecutions in the 90s that transferred the political violence of the preceding decade to the law courts. The trial did little to slow Flaccus's career. He was elected praetor by 92 BC, and was praetor or propraetor in Asia around 92–91 BC, within a few years of his brother Gaius having held the same post.

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