FLACCUS, L. POMPONIUS:
Roman governor of Syria (32-35?); no particulars concerning his life are known. When Agrippa (afterward King Agrippa I.), while poor and suffering, was insulted by his brother-in-law Herod Antipas, he applied to Flaccus, with whom he had formed a friendship at Rome.
Bibliography:
- Grätz, Gesch. 4th ed., iii. 319;
- Schürer, Gesch. 3d ed., i. 551;
- Prosopographia Imperii Romani, iii. 76.
