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

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His joke against the emperor is recorded by Capi- VALE'RIUS THEON. [THEON, No. 6.]
tolinus (M. Alt. Phil. 6). He may have been a VALE'RIUS VALENTI'NUS. [VALENdescendant of the Titius Homullus, whom the TINUS.]
younger Pliny speaks of as one of the orators of his VA'LGIUS. 1. The father-in-law of Rullus,
time (Ep. iv. 9, v. 20, vi. 19). who proposed the agrarian law in the consulship of
VALE'RIUS, JU'LIUS. Angelo Mai printed Cicero, which was opposed by the latter. It apin the seventh volume of his " Classici Auctores e pears from Cicero that Valgius had obtained much
Vaticanis codicibus editi " (8vo. Rom. 1835) from confiscated property in the time of Sulla. (Cic. de
one Ambrosian and two Vatican MSS. an historical Leg. Agr. iii. 1.)
tract inscribed Jdili Valerii viri clarissini Res 2. A. VALGIUS, the son of a senator, deserted
(Gestac Alexandri lfeacedonis translatae ex Aesopo the Pompeian party in the Spanish war B. C. 45,
G(,-a,,o, and in his " Spicilegium Romanum " (8vo. and went over to Caesar. (Auctor, B. Hisp. 13.)
Rom. 1842) he added some new matter obtained 3. C. VALGIUS HIPPIANUS, the son of Q. Hipfrom a Turin MS. The work, as the title im- pins, was adopted by a certain C. Valgius. (Cic.
ports, is taken from the Greek of Aesopus, and the ad Fam. xiii. 76.) For details see Hippius.
original must have been composed before the middle C. VA'LGIUS RUFUS. 1. Horace, in the
of the fourth century, and probably before the di- tenth satire of his first book, composed, according
vision of the empire, since the temple of Serapis to Bentley, not later than B. C. 38, where he dewhich was destroyed in A. D. 389 by an edict of fends and explains the criticism he had formerly
Theodosius, and the tomb of Alexander which had passed upon Lucilius, ranks Valgius (b. 81) along
been removed in the age of Chrysostom, are both with Varius, Maecenas and Virgil among those
spoken of as if standing in their original state friends of genius and sound judgment whose ap(i. 30, iii. 57), while in describing the dimen- probation far more than compensated for the ansions of the most famous cities (i. 20) no notice is noyance caused by the attacks of his detractors.
taken of Constantinople. We cannot determine 2. Again, in the ninth ode of the second book,
with the same certainty a limit for the period when written about B. C. 23 or 20, he endeavours to conthe translation was executed, but judging from the sole Valgius whom he represents as giving vent in
general tone of the Latinity it could not have been tearful strains to the grief caused by the loss of his
later than the beginning of the fifth century. This favourite Mystes. The personage here addressed
piece, although published for the first time by is termed by the old scholiast upon Horace " ValMai, was known to Vincent of Beauvais, to Sau- gium consularem."
maise, to Chifflet, and to many other critics. It is 3. Servius, in his commentary on Virgil, twice
by no means undeserving of attention; the style is refers (ad Virg. vii. 22, ad Aen. xi. 457) to" Vallively and attractive, and, although many of the gius in elegis." From the expressions used in the
statements are evidently fabulous, much curious in- first passage we might infer that this Valgius was a
formation may be gleaned from it with regard to contemporary of Virgil, in the second a couplet is
the affairs of Egypt and especially of Alexandria. quoted from his poems. Another couplet from
The author was probably a native of that city "Valgius" is to be found in Isidorus (Orig. xix. 4.
(i. 27); and it has been conjectured, from some s. v. remulcum).
peculiarities in the language, that Valerius was an 4. C. Valgius appears from some Fasti to have
African. (See the prefatory remarks of Mai ia his been consul suffectus in B. C. 12. Comp. Gruter,
"Classici Auctores.") [W. R.] p. ccxcviii. 1.
VALE'RIUS LARGUS. [LARGUS.] 5. Pliny (H. N. xxv. 2) makes mention of a
VALE'RIUS LICINIA'NUS. [LICINIA- " C. Valgius eruditione spectatus," who commenced
NUS.] a treatise upon medicinal plants which he dedicated
VALE'RIUS LIGUR, praefectus of the prae- to Augustus, but did not complete the work.
torian cohorts under Augustus. (Dion Cass. lx. 23.) 6. In the Panegyric on Messala contained among
VALE/RIUS MARCELLI'NUS, a Roman the works of Tibullus we read (180)
historian, who wrote the lives of some of the em- Est tibi, qui possit magnis se accingere rebus,
perors. (Capitol. Aaximn. et Balbin. 4.) Valgius, aeterno propior non alter Homero,"
VALE'RIUS MARI'NUS, had been named
one of the consuls by Galba for the year 69 A. D., from which it has been concluded that Valgius was
but was deprived of the intended honour by Vi- the author of heroic strains. No epic poet of that
tellins. (Tac. Hist. ii. 71.) name, however, is mentioned by Quintilian, nor is
VALE'RIUS MARTIA'LIS. [MARTIALIS.] any notice to be discovered in the grammarians of a
VALE'RIUS MAXIMIA'NUS. [MAXIMI- work which, if the above couplet be not ridicuANUS.] lously hyperbolical, must have attracted general
VALE'RTUS MAXIMI'NUS. [MAxIMINu.] attention. This circumstance, however, need ocVALE'RIUS MA'XIMUS. [MAXIMUS.] casion little surprise when we recollect that the
VALE'RIUS NASO. [NAso.] piece in which these lines occur is believed by the
VALE'RIUS NEPOS. [NEPos.] best critics not to be the production of Tibullus but
VALE/RIUS PAULI/NUS. [PAULINUS.] a rhetorical essay belonging to a much later period.
VALE'RIUS PO'LLIO. [POLLIO.] 7. Philargyrius (ad Virg. Georg. iii. 176) cites
VALE'RIUS PO'NTICUS,banished inNero's two hexameter lines from " Valgius " which aprei zn, A. n. 61. (Tac. Ann. xiv. 41.) pear to be taken from a pastoral.
VALE'RIUS PRAECONI'NUS. [PRAE- 8. Charisius (p. 84, ed. Putsch.) produces a
CONINUS.] verse from "Valgius in epigrammate " to illustrate
VALE'RIUS PRISCUS. [PRIscUS.] the gender of the word nargarita.
VALE'RIUS PROBUS. [PROBUS.] 9. Donatus, in his life of Terence, quotes three
VALE'RIUS PROCILLUS. [PROCILLUS.] Iambics from "C Valgius in Actaeone," which affirm
VALE'RIUS SORA'NUS. [SORANUS.] that Terence published, under his own name, dramas
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