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n. (given name female from=Latin).
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The Gens Valeria was a patrician family at Rome, which later included a number of plebeian branches. 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. Publius Valerius, afterwards surnamed Poplicola or Publicola, played a distinguished part in the story of the expulsion of the Kings, and was elected consul in the first year of the Republic, BC 509. From this time forward, down to the latest period of the Empire, for nearly a thousand years, the name Valerius occurs more or less frequently in the Fasti, and it was borne by the emperors Maximinus, Maximianus, Maxentius, Diocletian, Constantius, Constantine the Great, and others.
The Valeria gens enjoyed extraordinary honours and privileges at Rome. Their house at the bottom of the Velia was the only one in Rome of which the doors were allowed to open back into the street. In the Circus Maximus a conspicuous place was set apart for them, where a small throne was erected, an honour of which there was no other example among the Romans. They were also allowed to bury their dead within the walls, a privilege which was also granted to some other gentes; and when they had exchanged the older custom of interment for that of burning the corpse, although they did not light the funeral pile on their burying-ground, the bier was set down there, as a symbolical way of preserving their right.
Niebuhr, who mentions these distinctions, conjectures that among the gradual changes of the constitution from a monarchy to an aristocracy, the Valeria gens for a time possessed the right that one of its members should exercise the kingly power for the Tities, to which tribe the Valerii must have belonged, as their Sabine origin indicates; but on this point, as on many others in early Roman history, it is impossible to come to any certainty. The Valerii in early times were always foremost in advocating the rights of the plebeians, and the laws which they proposed at various times were the great charters of the liberties of the second order.
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Valeria was the fifth wife of Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla. She was the daughter of Marcus Valerius Messalla Niger and a sister of the consul of 53 BC, Marcus Valerius Messalla Rufus.
An "alert young divorcee", as Ronald Syme writes, she attracted the notice of Sulla at the theatre, and he married her towards the end of his life. When he retired from public life to a villa in southern Italy, she accompanied him. She was pregnant at the time of his death in 78 BC and had a daughter, Cornelia Postuma, some months later.
Plutarch calls her a sister of the orator Quintus Hortensius, but this is a mistake probably arising from the fact that the sister of Hortensius married a Valerius Messala.
Valeria is a pirate and adventuress (a member of The Red Brotherhood of pirates) in the fictional universe of Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian stories. She appears in Robert E. Howard's Conan novella Red Nails, serialized in Weird Tales 28 1-3 (July, August/September & October 1936). This was the last Conan story written by Howard, and published posthumously. The name was also used for Conan's love interest in the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian.
Valeria was a name used in ancient Rome for women of the gens Valeria. Notable figures include:
- Valeria, the sister of P. Valerius Publicola, who is said to have advised the Roman matrons to ask Veturia, the mother of Coriolanus, to go to the camp of Coriolanus in order to deprecate his resentment.
- Valeria Messala, the fourth wife of Lucius Cornelius Sulla.
- Valeria Messalina, died 48, third wife of the Emperor Claudius.
- Valeria Maximilla, Empress of Rome and wife of Emperor Maxentius
Valeria is a 1965 chamber music composition by Toru Takemitsu, recomposed from an earlier work, Sonant.
Valeria'' (Valería'') is a Mexican telenovela produced by Ernesto Alonso for Telesistema Mexicano in 1966. It was directed by Julio Alejandro.
An Argentinian remake of Valería was made in 1986. A Peruvian telenovela Milagros is quite similar to Valería.
Valeria is a Miami, Florida-based Spanish language telenovela produced by Venevisión Productions. The telenovela began airing on Univision on March 10, 2009 at the 2pm/1c timeslot.
Filming of the telenovela ended in September 2008, and it was first released in June 2008 in Ecuador. It aired in Venezuela on July 14, 2009 on Venevisión Plus at the 10pm timeslot with re-airings at 1pm timeslot. It also aired in Spain, Peru, El Salvador, Romania, Croatia, and other countries.
Characters of Leopoldo and Manon are played by the two siblings – Jorge Reyes and his sister Claudia.
Valeria or Valéria is a female given name dating back to the Latin verb valere, meaning "to be strong". The male version is Valerius, Valerio or Valery. Valeria is also connected to the same root with the name, " Valentine," and " Valerian," or " Valeriana officinalis," the herb.
It is primarily used in Russian, Italian, Romanian, Hungarian, Spanish, Greek and Latin American societies. It means "strong, healthy, or capable."
The form Valéria is used in Portuguese and Slovak.
Usage examples of "valeria".
South of the Via Valeria the country was solid vineyard, a vast expanse of grapes grown inside small high-walled enclosures to protect them from the bitter winds which swept off the mountains at just that time of year when the tender grape florets were forming and the insects needed calm air to pollinate.
Valeria was renowned: Its Mother Abbesses were known for their study of the forbidden art of sorcery.
Valeria found her indifferent callousness more repugnant than Olmec's naked ferocity.
The man gasped agonizedly and went to his knees, but his tall mate lunged in, in ferocious silence, raining blow on blow so furiously that Valeria had no opportunity to counter.
I would bind myself, dentures fractured or hopelessly mislaid, in horrible chambres garnies where I would be entertained at tedious vivisecting parties that generally ended with Charlotte or Valeria weeping in my bleeding arms and being tenderly kissed by my brotherly lips in a dream disorder of auctioneered Viennese bric--brac, pity, impotence and the brown wigs of tragic old women who had just been gassed.
We will be going to the shops and to a circulating library Valeria recommended to me.
But Valeria was like a fish out of water in this jungle, or rather, a sailor far from the sea.
Valeria awoke with a start, to the realization that a gray dawn was stealing over the plain.
It was not fear of the dominant strength that lurked in the princess' limbs that made Valeria a helpless, quivering captive in her hands.
As Valeria plunged into the leafy screen a backward glance showed her the Titan rearing up fearsomely on his massive hinder legs, even as Conan had predicted.
Within a hundred yards Valeria was panting and reeling in her gait, and behind them the crashing gave way to a rolling thunder as the monster broke out of the thickets and into the more open ground.
Those eyes and that smile contained all the cruel cynicism that seethes below the surface of a sophisticated and degenerate race, and for the first time in her life Valeria experienced fear of a man.
Returning from an aimless exploration of the upper chambers to find Valeria missing from the room where he had left her, he had followed the sounds of strife that burst on his dumfounded ears.