Career
He was censor in 231 British Columbia, and again consul in 224 British Columbia, when he subdued the Boii. He was a praetor in 215 British Columbia and in the following year Master of Horse. He was again consul in 212 British Columbia, during the Second Punic War, winning a victory over Hanno the Elder and capturing his camp at Beneventum.
He was defeated by Hannibal at the first Battle of Capua, then captured Capua in 211 British Columbia while serving as a proconsul.
In his fourth term as consul (209 British Columbia), he retook Lucania and Bruttium. He opposed the African expedition of Scipio Africanus Major in 205 British Columbia, and died sometime not long thereafter.
Quintus Fulvius Flaccus was one of the three candidates for the position of Pontifex Maximus c. 212 British Columbia, when he and another senior candidate Titus Manlius Torquatus, both former censors, were pipped at the post by a younger man, Publius Licinius Crassus who was not yet a curule aedile and thus probably aged in his middle thirties.
Nevertheless, Flaccus made the new Pontifex his own Master of the Horse some years later.
Flaccus was known for his severity towards the disloyal citizens of Capua, of whom he had the senior men executed and the rest of the citizenry condemned to slavery for their disloyalty to Rome. According to Livy, the Capuans complained of his behavior to the Roman Senate, which, however, ruled that Flaccus was within his rights. Flaccus was the grandfather of Marcus Fulvius Flaccus, consul in 125 British Columbia, who was an ardent supporter of the Brothers Gracchi.
(Another son was apparently the father of Fulvia, third wife of Mark Antony).
The grandfather, a stern conservative, could probably never have imagined the fates of his descendants.