Valère Maxime or Valerius Maximus is a Historien and Roman Moraliste of the Ier century a. J. - C.. Undoubtedly born at the end from Ier front S. JC, he was consul of 14; contemporary of Tibère, it was well seen at his court.

Biography

Valère Maxime was useful in Asia under the consul Sextus Pompeius, then became consul of 14 after J. - C. Admitted at the court of the emperor Tibère, he wrote in Latin, under the dictorumque title Factorum memorabilium libri IX ( Of the facts and the memorable words ), a collection of anecdotes in nine pounds undoubtedly extracted the Greek and Roman historians. It is not an original work there, and the author does not seem to have shown a quite judicious criticism. However its book is useful for us, because it contains a rather great number of episodes which we do not know in addition; it is a repertory of facts being referred to the religion, the civil life and the social life, and of historical anecdotes.

Publications

• Valerii Maximi dictorum factorumque memorabilium libri IX ...... repurgati, atque in meliorem ordinem restituti per Stephanum Pighium Campensem. Antverpiae . Antwerp 1567 1600 First edition plantinienne of Valère Maxime, rhetor and Historiographer of Ier century. It is drawn with 1250 specimens, and perfectly printed on paper " longuet of fine Troyes ". Rare edition. Speeckaert counts of them three specimens in Belgium, and with London.

• Valère Maxime. F' aits and known as mémorables' . Volume I: Books I-III ; Transl. Robert Combès. Paris: Beautiful Letters; Collection of the Universities of France, 2003,341 p. (the 2nd pulling).

• Valère Maxime. Facts and known as memorable. Volume II: Books IV-VI ; Transl. Robert Combès. Paris: Beautiful Letters; Collection of the Universities of France, 2003,275 p. (the 2nd pulling).

External bonds

• French Translation of the dictorumque Factorum memorabilium libri IX on the Remacle.org site

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