Sextus Quintilius Valerius Maximus

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Sextus Quintilius Valerius Maximus was a Roman politician and senator in the second century AD.

Biography

Born in Alexandria Troas, Quintilius Valerius Maximus and his brother Sextus Quintilius Condianus were members of gens Valeria.[1] The brothers served together as consuls in 151 AD. In 168 AD, Valerius Maximus served as Proconsul of Asia.[2] The brothers were well educated and authored a treatise in the Greek language on farming, called Georgica. The brothers were later killed on the orders of Commodus.[3] His son, Sextus Quintilius Condianus, served as consul in 180 AD.

References

  1. ^ Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists, 2,1,11
  2. ^ Cassius Dio, Roman History, 72, 33,
  3. ^ Historia Augusta, Commodus, 4
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