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[German version] Writer of Latin love poetry, mentioned in Ovid (Tr. 2,433-436) together with Memmius [I 3], Helvius [I 3] Cinna, Anser [2], Cornificius [3] and Valerius [III 3] Cato. A lover (or perhaps his mistress, if T. was a slave) he calls Perilla was in reality one Caecilia Metella (Apul. Apol. 10); other poets praise her under her real name (Ov. Tr. 2,437 f.). Two fragments of T.'s work survive: one of a wedding song in glyconics (Prisc. 1,189), the other of an elegiac poem which praises Valerius [III 3] Cato's Lydia (Suet. Gram. 11,2). An eques Romanus with the name of L. T., …

[German version] [1] Valerius C., C. Roman poet, 1st cent. BC Roman poet of the 1st cent. BC born in Verona ( scriptor lyricus Veronae nascitur, Jer. Chron. a. Abr. 1930). The praenomen is confirmed through Apul. Apol. 10, the nomen gentile by Suet. Iul. 73 and Porph. ad Hor. Sat. 1,10,18. The Valerii Catulli are known from the time of Augustus onwards as a senatorial family. In the later Republic they probably formed equestrian domus nobiles in the Transpadanic ‘Latin colony’ Verona [1. 335-348]. C. refers to himself as a Transpadanus (39,13) and describes Sirmio in the region of Ve…

Roman proper name, possibly derived from the first name Helvus. I. Republican period [German version] [I 1] H., C. Praetor in 198 BC in Gallia Cisalpina In 199 BC plebeian aedile, in 198 praetor in Gallia Cisalpina (Liv. 32,7,13), in 189 legate of Cn.  Manlius Vulso in the campaign against the Galatians of Asia Minor (Pol. 21,34,2-4; Liv. 38,14,4f. etc.). MRR 1,327; 330; 364. Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum) [German version] [I 2] H., M. Praetor in 197 BC in Hispania Citerior In 198 plebeian aedile, in 197 praetor in Hispania citerior. Kept there until 195 because of an illne…