Valerius Maximus, a Roman writer of the age of Tiberius, who compiled a collection of the sayings and doings of notable Romans; it is of very miscellaneous character, and is written in a bombastic style, and dedicated to the emperor.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Valerianus, Lucinius * Valetta