Category:Gens Valeria (Nova Roma)

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VALE'RIA GENS, patrician and afterward* plebeian also. The Valeria gens was one of the most ancient and most celebrated at Rome ; and no other Roman gens was distinguished for so long a period, although a few others, such as the Cor­nelia gens, produced a greater number of illustrious men. The Valerii are universally admitted to have been of Sabine origin, and their ancestor Vo-lesus or Volusus is said to have settled at Rome with Titus Tatius. (Dionys. ii. 46 ; Plut. Num. 5, Publ. 1.) One of the descendants of this Vo-lesus, P. Valerius, afterwards surnamed Publicola> plays a distinguished part in the story of the ex­pulsion of the kings, and was elected consul in the first year of the republic, B. c. 509. From this time forward down to the latest period of the em« pire, for nearly a thousand years, the name occurs more or less frequently in the Fasti, and it was borne by the emperors Maximinus, Maximianus, Maxentius, Diocletian, Constantius, Constantine the

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Praenomina

Praenomina commonly used by members of this gens in ancient times were:

Used by the early Valerii:

Gaius, Lucius, Manius, Marcus, Publius.

Used by the Valerii Lactucini, Maximi, Corvi, Corvini, and Messallae:

Manius, Marcus.

Used by the Valerii Potiti, Poplicolae, and Laevini:

Gaius, Lucius, Marcus, Publius.

Used by the Valerii Flacci:

Gaius, Lucius, Marcus, Publius.

Used by the Valerii Faltones:

Marcus, Publius, Quintus.

In modern times the most common praenomina have been Gaius, Lucius, Marcus, Quintus, and Aulus. The praenomina Sextus, Gnaeus, Spurius, Manius, Numerius, and Vibius have not been used by the Valerii in the modern era.