| Samuel Ball Platner, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (London: Oxford University Press, 1929). DOMUS VALERIORUM: on the Caelian, on the site occupied now by the Ospedale dell' Addolorata, where many remains of pavements, frescoes, and works of art have been found, and eleven inscriptions relating to the family in the fourth century. This house was offered for sale in 404 A.D., but found no buyer on account of its magnificence, while six years later, after the sack of Rome by Alaric, it was sold for almost nothing. It seems to have been transformed into a hospital--Xenodochium Valeriorum or a Valeriis. |
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