V
V ⇒ (1) M. T V; (2) V V
V ⇒ C V
M. Valerius Messalla Potitus (45 – 15 BCE)
Suffect consul in 29 BCE, and author of a treatise on gardening (Kepourika) known to P
(1.ind.19). The emended text of Pliny (14.66) makes him the creator of a variety of wine
known as Potitana. The Messalla of Pliny 14.69, who advertised the health-giving effects
of a wine known as Lagarina, will either be this man or M. Valerius Messalla Coruinus, the
famous orator and general.
RE 8A.1 (1955) 165–166 (#267), R. Hanslik.
Philip Thibodeau
Valerius Paulinus (ca 30 BCE – 90 CE)
A P. in G – CMLoc 8.8 (13.211–213 K.) for a liver remedy, and
CMGen 7.12 (13.1025–1027 K.) for several akopa based on H or F C-
– twice cites this man, whose name and terminus ante match the Vespasianic praefectus
Annonae and praefectus Aegypti (PIR2 P-173). (Cf. also the Paulina prepared by A
T.) But the cognomen is known from the 1st c. BCE: Paulinos (ca 100 BCE: LGPN
3A.356), Paulinos (1st c. BCE–1st c. CE: LGPN 4.276), Paulina (20 CE: Iosephus, Ant. Iud.
18.65–80), Paulina (38 CE: Dio Cassius 59.12.1, 59.23.7), etc.
Fabricius (1726) 440.
PTK
C. Valgius Rufus (45 – 5 BCE)
Roman senator, suffect consul (12 BCE), student of and translator for A’ teacher
Apollodo ̄ros (Quint. 3.1.18, 3.5.17), friend of Horace who respected his literary judgments
(Sat. 1.10.82) and consoled him over the loss of a beloved slave Mystes (Carm. 2.9). Valgius
wrote a grammatical treatise (de rebus per epistulam quaesitam: Gell. 12.3.1), epigrams, elegies,
and a panegyric for Messalla (FLP 287 – 290). P, describing Valgius’ erudition, cites him
as only the second Latin author, after P L, to write on herbal medicine. His