Valeria

Family: Roman · Role: daughter of Poplicola · First appears: Poplicola

Poplicola

parent: Publius Valerius (Direction is parent to child.) “To confirm the peace, the Romans gave as hostages ten sons of patrician parents, and as many daughters, amongst whom was Valeria, the daughter of Poplicola.”

siblings with Poplicola “Among these suppliants was Valeria, sister to the great Poplicola”
with Volumnia (Valeria led the Roman women to Volumnia to seek her help.) “She, suddenly seized with the sort of instinct or emotion of mind which I have described, and happily lighting, not without divine guidance, on the right expedient, both rose herself, and bade the others rise, and went directly with them to the house of Volumnia, the mother of Marcius.”

married with Sylla “In the end, overtures were made, and a marriage concluded on.”
parent: Messala “there sat down by Sylla a beautiful woman of high birth, by name Valeria, daughter of Messala, and sister to Hortensius the orator.”
siblings with Hortensius “there sat down by Sylla a beautiful woman of high birth, by name Valeria, daughter of Messala, and sister to Hortensius the orator.”

Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.