Career
As a military commander in that year and the following, he was known for the battles against Pyrrhus of Epirus that led to the expression "Pyrrhic victory". Coruncanius, of plebeian descent, is believed to have hailed from Tusculum. He was first elected consul in 280 British Columbia with Publius Valerius Laevinus, and led an expedition into Etruria against the Etruscan cities.
When Pyrrhus of Epirus invaded Italia, and defeated the Roman legions of Laevinus at the Battle of Heraclea, Tiberius" legions were recalled to Rome to bolster the defense of Roman territory.
In 254 British Columbia or 253 British Columbia, he was the first plebeian elected Pontifex Maximus, or chief priest of the Roman Republic, which position had been previously monopolized by patricians. He died in 241 British Columbia and was succeeded by another plebeian briefly.
Like Socrates, he left no writings. His public legal instruction had the effect of creating a class of legally skilled non-priests (jurisprudentes), a sort of consultancy.
After Coruncanius" death, instruction gradually became more formal, with the introduction of books on law beyond the then scant official Roman legal texts.
These consultations were probably held outside the College of Pontiffs, and thus accessible to all those interested. (How students of law learned their material earlier is unknown).
