Early 1st century AD Roman professional rhetorician, historian and author
Page from an incunable of Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia, printed in red and black by Peter Schöffer (Mainz, 1471)
Valerius Maximus (/vəˈlɪəriəsˈmæksɪməs/) was a 1st-century Latin writer and author of a collection of historical anecdotes: Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX [it] ("Nine books of memorable deeds and sayings", also known as De factis dictisque memorabilibus or Facta et dicta memorabilia). He worked during the reign of Tiberius (14 AD to 37 AD).
During the Middle Ages, Valerius Maximus was one of the most copied Latin prose authors, second only to Priscian. More than 600 medieval manuscripts of his books have survived as a result.[1]
ValeriusMaximus (/vəˈlɪəriəs ˈmæksɪməs/) was a 1st-century Latin writer and author of a collection of historical anecdotes: Factorum et dictorum memorabilium...
probably son of Valerius Maximus signo Basilius. Valerius Publicola, (c. 350 AD) son of Melania the Elder and ValeriusMaximus signo Basilius, and father...
Galerius Valerius Maximianus (/ɡəˈlɛəriəs/; Greek: Γαλέριος; c. 258 – May 311) was Roman emperor from 305 to 311. During his reign he campaigned, aided...
Manius ValeriusMaximus was Roman dictator in 494 BC during the first secession of the plebs. His brothers were Publius Valerius Publicola and Marcus...
beast-hunt at the Circus Maximus took place in 523, and the last known races there were held by Totila in 549. The Circus Maximus was sited on the level...
months in 455 ValeriusMaximus, 1st-century historian Claudius Maximus, 2nd-century Stoic, teacher of emperor Marcus Aurelius Maximus of Tyre, 2nd-century...
ValeriusMaximus signo Basilius (fl. 319–323) was a prominent Roman senator during the reign of the emperor Constantine I. A pagan, he must have had a...
Marcus Valerius Corvus Gaius Valerius Flaccus (consul) Lucius Valerius Flaccus Publius Valerius Laevinus Marcus Valerius Laevinus Manius ValeriusMaximus Corvinus...
BC. His father was the literary patron Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, suffect consul in 31 BC. Maximus was the son born to Corvinus’ second marriage...
Andechs. – 1894. ValeriusMaximus: Facta et dicta memorabilia, chapter: 5,4 De pietate in parentes.; English translation: ValeriusMaximus, Memorable Doings...
§25 Polybius, ii. 19 Seneca, De Consolatione ad Helviam Matrem 10.8 ValeriusMaximus, iv. 3, 5, vi. 3, 4 Pliny, Natural History 7.68, LacusCurtius edition...
the words, "Now move at least a little out of the sun". According to ValeriusMaximus, Diogenes answered: "To this later, for now I just want you not to...
The first to adopt the inclytus alternative to maximus may have been the rebel augustus Magnus Maximus (r. 383–388). The word pontifex and its derivative...
of Volusus Valerius and the son of the dictator of 494 BC, Manius Valerius Volusus Maximus. Including filiation his name was Marcus Valerius M'.f. Volusi...
dictator was Manius ValeriusMaximus, although Livy thought this improbable, as he had not previously been consul and, had a Valerius been desired, Manius'...
61 BC, Marcus Valerius Messalla Niger, and his wife, Palla. Some dispute his parentage and claim another descendant of Marcus Valerius Corvus to be his...
found in ValeriusMaximus (Memorable Deeds and Sayings 6.7.1–3. L) writing in the first century AD, some decades after Livy. ValeriusMaximus is hostile...
Marcus Valerius Volusus (or Volesus, sometimes referred to as M. Valerius Volusus Maximus) was a Roman consul with Publius Postumius Tubertus in 505 BC...
time of ValeriusMaximus. Her name is a reference to the Latin phrase a placandis viris (from placating husbands). Festus p. 62 ; ValeriusMaximus ii. 1...
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