A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

121l VALERIUS. VALERI US.
VALE'RIUS, artists. 1. Of Ostia. The ar- cuse him, and also instructed Sosibius, who was
chitect of the covered theatre erected at Rome for then a slave or a freedman in the palace, to caution
the games of Libo. (Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 15. s. 24.) Claudius against the power and wealth of ValePliny does not say which Libo he refers to; but rius. This was in A. D. 47, the year following his
it is likely to have been L. Scribonius Libo, who second consulship. Valerius had in the preceding
in his curule aedileship, with his colleague C. year voluntarily resigned his consulship after holdAtilius Serranus, first celebrated the Megalesia ing it for a short time, in order to avoid the envy
a.s ludi scenici, B. C. 193. [LIBO, SCRIBONIUS, of which he was the subject. Suillius accused
No. 3]. him of the part he had taken in Caligula's death,
2. M. VALERIUS M. P. ARTEMA, an archi- and of an intention of setting out to the German
tect, who is mentioned in an extant inscription. armies with a view of aspiring to the empire,
(Sillig, Cat. Artif. Append. s. v. Artemna; R. since he was born at Vienna (Vienne) in Gaul
Rochette, Lettre'a M. Schorn, p. 422, 2d. ed.) and had many connections in that part of the Ro3. D. VALERIUS L. F., described as Vascula- man world. The weak and credulous emperor was
rius, that is, a maker of bronze vases, in two in- easily persuaded. Valerius was apprehended at
scriptions found at Tusculum, of which place he Baiae. The senate was not summoned, but he
was a native or a citizen, for in one of the inscrip- was brought into the emperor's chamber, where
tions he is styled Tusculan. (Muratori, Thes. Suillius laid various crimes to his charge. Valevol. i. p. xii. 12, p. xiv. 6; R. Rochette, I. c.) rius defended himself with spirit, and the emperor
4. C. VALERIUS ANEMESTIONE C. Ius, is the would have acquitted him had it not been for
form in which a Cordovan inscription gives the Messalina, who got Vitellius, then consul for the
name of an artist in metal, who made the em- third time, to persuade the emperor to sentence
bossed vessels called anaglypta. He is styled him to death. He was allowed the choice of his
in the inscription Caelotor Anaglytarius, but there death, and died by opening his veins. (Dion
can be no doubt that the last word is an error for Cass. lix. 30; Joseph. xix. 1; Sen. de Const. Sap.
Anaylyptarius. (Muratori, Thes. vol. ii. p. 18; Tac. Ann. xi. 1-3, xiii. 43; Dion Cass. lx.
cmlxxxi. 9; R. Rochette, I. c.) [P. S.] 27, 29, 31.)
VALE'RIUS AEDITUUS. In the ninth 2. P. VALERIUS ASIATICUS, the legatus of the
chapter of the nineteenth book of the Noctes At- province of Gallia Belgica at the death of Nero,
ticae a certain rhetorician Julianus, when challenged espoused the cause of Vitellils at the beginning of
to point out anything in the Latin language worthy A. D. 69, and soon afterwards married the daughter
of being compared with the graceful effusions of of Vitellius. Qn the fall of Vitellius he hastened
Anacreon, and other bards of that class among the to make his peace with the generals of Vespasian,
Greeks, quotes two short epigrams by Valerius and as consul designatus spoke in the senate in
Aedituis, who is simply described as " veteris favour of their proposals. He was allowed in conpoetae," one by Porcius Licinius, and one by sequence to enjoy the consulship as suffectus in the
Quintus Catulus. Upon these collectively A. Gel- following year, A. D. 70. (Tac. Hist. i. 59, iv.
lius pronounces " mundius, venustius, limatias, pres- 4, 6.)
sius, Graecumve Latinumve nihil quidquam reperiri 3. VALERIUS ASIATICUS, consul under Hadrian
puto." They unquestionably merit high commend- A. D. 125 with Titius A quilinus (Fasti).
ation, but are so evidently derived from some Greek VALE'RIUS BASSIA'NUS, slain by Comsource, that they could scarcely be adduced with modus. (Lamprid. Conznzod. 7.)
fairness as specimens of the Roman lyric muse. M. VALE'RIUS BRA'DUA, consul under
Judging from the language and versification we Commodus A. D. 191 with Pedo Apronianus
may assign them to a period about B. C. 100. (Gell. (Fasti).
xix. 9; Anthol. Lat. iii. 242, 243, ed. Burmann, or C. VALE'RIUS CABURNUS. [PROCILLUS.]
Nos. 27, 28, ed. Meyer.) [W. R.] VALE'RIUS CA'PITO, banished by AgripVALE'RIUS A'NTIAS. [ANTIAS.] pina, was after her death recalled from exile by
VALE'RIUS ASIA'TICUS. 1. P. VALE- Nero. (Tac. Ann. xiv. 12.)
RIus ASIAT]CUS, consul suffectus under Caligula, VALE'RIUS CATULI'NUS, was sent by Jubut in what year is uncertain, and a second time lianus to succeed Septimius Severus in the governconsul under Claudius in A. D. 46 with M. Junius ment of Illyricum, when the latter assumed the
Silanus. Valerius was a friend of Caligula, but, imperial title. Valerius was afterwards killed by
having received a gross insult from him, rejoiced Septimius. (Spartian. Julian, 5, Sever. 13.)
at his death. When the praetorian troops, after VALE'RIUS CATO. [CATO.]
the assassination of the emperor, were seeking for VALE'RIUS CATULLUS. [CATULLUS.]
the murderer in order to wreak their vengeance VALE'RIUS CONSTANTI'NUS. [CONon him, Valerius stood up in a conspicuous place STANTINUS I.]
and exclaimed "Would that I had killed him," VALE RIUS CONSTA'NTIUS. [CoNSTANby which act of courage the soldiers were so as- TIUS.]
tonished that they returned quietly to their quar- VALE'RIUS DIOCLETIA'NUS. [DIocznters. Valerius was very wealthy and this proved TIANUS.]
his ruin. The empress Messalina coveted his VALE'RIUS DIODO'RUS. [DIODORUS,
splendid gardens, which were the same as Lucul- literary, No. 2.]
lus had originally laid out, and which Valerius had VALE'RIUS EUTYCHIA'NUS COMAmade still more magnificent. She also suspected ZON. [CoMAZON.]
him of being one of the paramours of the beautiful VALE'RIUS FABIA'NUS. [FABIANTS.]
Poppaea Sabina, the mother of Nero's wife, VALE'RIUS EESTUS. [FEsTus.]
whom she both feared and detested; and she VALERIUS GRATUS. [GRATUS.]
therefore resolved to crush Valerius and Poppaea M. VALE'RIUS HOMULLUS, consul under
at the same time. She employed Suillius to ac- Antoninus Pius A. D. 152 with M. Acilius Glabrio.