The corpus record — Latin

Valerius

Valerius · m

the name of a Roman

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 18s 1 · 60.24/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 13s 1 · 58.82/10k
Cato 2 · 46.73/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 37 · 18.32/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 7 23 · 17.41/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 2 27 · 15.16/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 6 17 · 12.63/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 17 · 11.53/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 41 8 · 10.52/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 23 14 · 9.53/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 31 12 · 9.49/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 16 · 9.21/10k

Densest 12 of 92 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Vălĕrĭus — Lewis & Short

Vălĕrĭus (old form Vălĕsĭus, acc. to Fest. s. v. Aureliam, p. 23 Müll.; v. letter R), i, m.; Vălĕrĭa, ae, f.,

I the name of a Roman gens.

I The favorite of the people, P. Valerius Publicola, Liv. 1, 58; 2, 2; 2, 8; Cic. Rep. 2, 31, 55; id. Leg. 2, 23, 58: Laevinum, Valerī genus, Hor. S. 1, 6, 12.—

II The historian, Q. Valerius Antias, Gell. 1, 7, 10.—

III The poets C. Valerius Flaccus and M. Valerius Martialis, Plin. Ep. 3, 21. —

IV The writer of Memorabilia, Valerius Maximus, al.—As adjj.

1 Vălĕrĭus, a, um, of or belonging to a Valerius: gens, Cic. Fl. 1, 1; 11, 25: lex, of the interrex L. Valerius Flaccus, id. Agr. 3, 2, 6; id. Rosc. Am. 43, 125; of the Consul suffectus, 668 A. U. C., L. Valerius Flaccus, id. Font. 1: tabula, a place in the forum beside the Curia Hostilia (so called from the tablet erected there in memory of M. Valerius Maximus Messala, consul 491 A. U. C., victorious in Gaul, Schol. Bob. ad Cic. Vatin. p. 318 Orell.), Cic. Fam. 14, 2, 2; id. Vatin. 9, 21.—

2 Vălĕrĭānus, a, um, of or belonging to a Valerius, Valerian: praedatores, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 553, 24.

In the wild

Ualerius Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 p10
Valerius Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.27.34.5
Valerius Cicero, Letters to Atticus 1.12.2
Valerius Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.107.p1
Ualerium Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 6 p5
Ualerio Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 p8

6 of 885 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.