person
Valerius (the interpreter)
Valerius
also: Valerius, Valerius interpres
An interpreter or dragoman who at Att. 1.12.2 reports to Cicero the rumour about his freedman Hilarus and Antonius, naming Cn. Plancius as its source; otherwise unidentified.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 16.7 §1 the villa of our friend Valerius
Valerius, an interpreter and friend of Cicero, owned the villa at Leucopetra where Cicero sheltered while waiting for a favourable wind.
- Ad Atticum 16.11 §7 if the interpreter Valerius will write me the names
Valerius, an interpreter (probably for Greek-speaking Sicily), could supply Cicero with the names of currently influential men in the Sicilian cities of Catina, Tauromenium, and Syracuse.