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Praeconiinus, L. Valerius

a legatue who was defeated and killed by the Aquitani a year before Caesar's legatus, P. Crassus, made war upon this people, B. C. 56 (Caesar, Caes. Gal. 3.20). This defeat of Praeconinus is not mentioned by any other writer, and we know nothing of him or of the history of the war.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.