Grice e Sorano

 147. Q. Valerius from the Latin town of Sora was a many-sided and esteemed scholar (of the first half of the 7th century U.c.) in the department of linguistic and antiquarian research, and a precursor of Varro, who like him often employed the metrical form. Volcacius Sedigitus also was a didactic poet in the department of literary history.

1. Cic. de or. 8, 43 (the scene is laid in 663/91) L. Crassus says: nostri (the Romans themselves) minus student litteris quam Latini. Notwithstanding (he says) the most uneducated native Roman easily surpasses litteralissimum togatorum omnium, Q. Valerium Soranum, lenitate vocis alque ipso oris pressu el sono.— Varro (born 638/116) knew him personally and often refers to him as a weighty authority; cf. GeLL. 2, 10,8: Varro, questioned by Ser. Sulpicius (§ 174, 2) concerning the favisae Capitolinae, confesses that he knows nothing about the origin of the word, sed Q.

Valerium Soranum solitum dicere, etc. Vanno LL. 7, 81, apud Valerium Soranum: vetus adagio est, o P. Scipio († 625/129). From this he appears to have been a contemporary of L. Accius, and it becomes probable that he is the same Valerius whom Varro quotes LL. 10, 70 Valerius ait: ' Accius (§ 134, 11) Hectörem nollet facere, Hectora mallet,' further 7, 65 scrupipedas ... dicit

... Valerius a pede ac

scrupea. He must also be identical with the expositor of the XII tables (§ 86, 6) of the same name. Two hexameters (of Stoic character on Juppiter as the one and highest god) ap. AUGUsTIn. civ. d. 7, 9 in fin. (cf. Mythogr. Vat. 152 Bode): in han sententiam eliam quosdam versus Valerii Sorani exponit idem Varro in eo libro quem seorsum ab istis de cultu deorum scripsil. PLis. NH. praef. 33 hoc ante me fecit (viz. to add a table of contents to a book) in litteris nostris Valerius Soranus, in libris quos irontidor inscripsit.

He must have been born about 600/154.

His two

sons, Quintus and Decimus, are called by Cic. Brut, 169 vicini el familiares mei, non tam in dicendo admirabiles quam docti et graecis litteris et latinis.

PRE. 6, 2342.—

Distinct from the 'litteratissimus togatorum omnium' is tribunus plebei

quidam

Valerius Soranus, who divulged the secret name of Rome and was punished with death by order of the Senate (VAnno ap. Serv. Aen. 1, 277; cf. PLs. NH. 8, 65.

PLoT. qu. rom. 61, p. 278 F). EvLEUTsCH, Phil. 39, 90. 180.