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

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