Marcus Valerius Corvus

Marcus Valerius Corvus (370 BC - 270 BC) was a Roman hero of the 4th century BC, characterized as a farmer who lived to be one hundred.

His list of accomplishments is suspiciously long; Valerius Antias is considered to have been responsible for some of the exaggeration.

• 349 - as tribune, defeats a giant Gaul in single combat, helped by a crow or raven (thus the cognomen)
• 348 - consul, at age of 22
• 346 - consul again, defeats Volsci
• 343 - consul again, defeats Samnites
• 342 - dictator
• 335 - consul, defeats Cales
• 301 - dictator again
• 300 - consul, defeats Aequi, introduces law of appeal
• 299 - suffect consul, defeats Etruscans