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Sextus Quintilius Valerius Maximus was a Roman politician and senator in the second century AD.

Biography

Born in Alexandria Troas, Quintilius Valerius Maximus and his brother Sextus Quintilius Condianus were members of gens Quintilia. The brothers served together as consuls in 151 AD. In 168 AD, Valerius Maximus served as proconsul of Asia. The brothers were well educated and authored a treatise in the Greek language on farming, called Georgica. The brothers were later killed on the orders of Commodus. His son, Sextus Quintilius Condianus, served as consul in 180 AD.

References

1. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 72, 33
2. Historia Augusta, Commodus, 4

Further reading

• Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists, 2,1,11

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