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-100–100 · early 1st century AD Roman professional rhetorician, historian and author
Also known as: Caius Valerius Maximus, Quintus V. Maximus, Val. Max., Валерий Максим, 발레리우스 막시무스, ワレリウス・マキシムス
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- Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri IX
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