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4 unusual facts about Valerius Maximus


Lars Herminius Aquilinus

These agree with the treatise, De Praenominibus, of uncertain authorship (usually appended to Valerius Maximus), which, however, gives the unusual spelling Lar.

Pedro MexĂ­a

The work takes material from the Attic Nights by Aulus Gellius, the Banquet of the Sophists by Ateneo, the Saturnalia of Macrobius, the Memorable deeds and sayings of Valerius Maximus, the Inventor of all things by Polidoro Virgilio, the Moralia and Parallel Lives of Plutarch and, above all, the Natural History of Pliny the Elder.

Quintus Aemilius Papus

Valerius Maximus, writing much later, said that there was silver in the homes of Gaius Fabricius Luscinus and Quintus Aemilius Papus, the leading men of their era.

Rodulfus Tortarius

He versified the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus.


Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus

According to Valerius Maximus: "When the senate decreed that the temples of Isis and Serapis be demolished and none of the workmen dared touch them, Consul L. Aemilius Paullus took off his official gown, seized an axe, and dashed it against the doors of that temple."(I, 3.3; quoting Julius Paris (translation from Loeb edition))


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