Valerius Maximus

It is only in inferior writers such as Valerius Maximus, who wrote a work on great deeds — good and evil — under Tiberius, that we find a different spirit.

Atheism in Pagan Antiquity Ingeborg Andersen 1897

Valerius Maximus gives some very neat examples of this in his chapter on self-confidence, de fiducia sui.

Studies in Pessimism 2004

Valerius Maximus gives some very good examples of this in his chapter de fiducia sui.

Essays of Schopenhauer 2004

Under Tiberius, Valerius Maximus composed Facta et dicta memorabilia, nine books of historical examples of virtues and vices.

b. Economy, Society, and Culture 2001

Valerius Maximus furnished them with exam - ples of virtuous behavior.

ICONOGRAPHY JAN BIA��OSTOCKI 1968

Valerius Maximus gives the reason why women had the upper-hand.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

Nothing is known of the life of Valerius Maximus beyond the fact that he visited Asia in company with Sex.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

His historical examples Friedländer thinks he took mostly from Valerius Maximus.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

Valerius Maximus is chargeable with no affectation of style, but is sometimes deficient in that purity of language which might be expected in the age of Tiberius, to whom the work is addressed.

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

What inducement the author had to this dedication, we know not; but as it is evident from a passage in the ninth book, that the compliment was paid after the death of Sejanus, and consequently in the most shameful period of Tiberius's reign, we cannot entertain any high opinion of the independent spirit of Valerius Maximus, who could submit to flatter a tyrant, in the zenith of infamy and detestation.

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus