Valerius Maximus, a Roman author, who, about 29-32 A.D., wrote in a bombastic style a somewhat miscellaneous collection of historical anecdotes. There are recent editions of the Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium Libri IX. by Halm (1865) and Kempf (2d ed. 1888).
Valerius Maximus
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 419
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