Valerius Maximus

Marcus Junianus Justinus

Cornelius Nepos

Julius Obsequens

oeuvres complètes

Cornelius Nepos, Quinte-Curce, Justin, Valère Maxime, Julius Obsequens

Valerius Maximus cũ duplici cõmentario: historico videlicet ac literato Oliuerii Arzignanẽsis:&familiari admodũ ac succincto J. Badii Ascẽsii

Valerius Maximus cum duplici Commentario: historico videlicet ac literato Oliverii Arzignanensis: & Familiari admodum ac succincto Jodoci Badii Ascensii. Qui quattuor & viginti exempla Aldino auspicio nuper inventa simili commentatione declaravit. Et totum opus gemina Tabella: altera titulorum: altera literarum ordine illustravit

Exemplary wisdom from ancient Rome. Valerius Maximus compiled his handbook of notable deeds and sayings during the reign of Tiberius (AD 14-37). The collection was admired in antiquity and has recently been attracting renewed scholarly attention. Yet to date there has been no modern English translation of Memorable Doings and Sayings. This work is now added to the Loeb Classical Library, in two volumes, a freshly edited Latin text facing D. R. Shackleton Bailey's pleasing and authoritative translation. Valerius arranges his instructive examples in short chapters, each focused on a particular virtue, vice, religious practice, or traditional custom--including Omens, Dreams, Anger, Cruelty, Bravery, Fidelity, Gratitude, Friendship, Parental Love. The moral undercurrent of this collection is readily apparent. But Valerius tells us that the book's purpose is simply practical: he decided to select worthwhile material from famous writers so that people looking for illustrative examples might be spared the trouble of research. Whatever the author's intention, his book is an interesting source of information on Roman attitudes toward religion and moral values in the first century.

Memorable Doings and Sayings

Adiecto indice propriorum nominum, rerumq́ue memoria dignarum locupletissimo

Valerii Maximi Dictorum factorumq. memorabilium exempla

Valerii Maximi Dictorum, & factorum memorabilium Libri Nouem. Ad exemplar Aldi

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Valerii Maximi Factorvm Et Dictorvm Memorabilivm Libri Novem

Valerius Maximus

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