Marco Valerio Máximo Lactuca

Marco Valerius Maximus Lactuca (in Latin, Marcus Valerius Maximus Lactuca) was a Roman consul in 456 BC. C. with Espurio Verginio Tricosto Celiomontano by colleague.

He was the son of the dictator of the year 494 a. C., Valerio Máximo, and nephew of Publio Valerio Publicola. He opposed the tribune of the plebeians Icilius, in his efforts to assign the hill of the Aventine as a land to be divided among the Romans. (Dionysus x 31-33, Liv. III, 31.) The cognomen Lactuca means lettuce, one of the favorite vegetables of the early Romans (Mart. Bibliography

wiki