Valère Maxime

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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