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MARCUS VALERIUS CORVUS (c. 370–270 B.C.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 210 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARCUS See also:VALERIUS See also:CORVUS (c. 370–270 B.C.)  , See also:Roman See also:general of the See also:early republican See also:period . According to the See also:legend a See also:raven settled on his See also:helmet during his combat with a gigantic See also:Gaul, and distracted the enemy's See also:attention by flying in his See also:face . He was twice See also:dictator and six times See also:consul, and occupied the See also:curule See also:chair twenty-one times . In his various See also:campaigns he defeated successively the Gauls, the Volscians, the See also:Samnites, the Etruscans and the Marsians . His most important victory (343) was over the Samnites at See also:Mount Gaurus . See See also:Livy vii . 26-42, x . 2-11 .

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