About Valerius Maximus Basilius
Lived 330 – 364 (aged 33–34). Valerius Maximus Basilius was a Roman politician.
Valerius Maximus Basilius ( 319–323) was a prominent Roman senator during the reign of the emperor Constantine I.
Life A pagan, he must have had a successful political career, as he managed to be appointed urban prefect of Rome , serving from 1 September 319 until 13 September 323. He held this post while Constantine was campaigning in the Balkans, and the emperor's son, the Caesar Crispus was at Augusta Treverorum. The abnormally long period of time he held this post, and the extended imperial absence, indicate that he was a trusted imperial subordinate.
Valerius Maximus was either the son of Lucius Valerius Messalla, consul in 280, or (more likely) another descendant of the first's father Lucius Valerius Poplicola Balbinus Maximus, consul in 253, thus paternal nephew of the first.
He was probably the father of Valerius Maximus and, by Melania the Elder, Valerius Publicola.
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Who was Valerius Maximus Basilius?
4th century Roman proconsul
When was Valerius Maximus Basilius born?
Valerius Maximus Basilius was born in 330 in Rome.
When did Valerius Maximus Basilius die?
Valerius Maximus Basilius died in 364 in Spain.
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Valerius Maximus Basilius was a politician.
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Valerius Maximus Basilius was Roman.
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