The best-known source is ValeriusMaximus’s Memorable Doings and Sayings (written under Tiberius), which preserves two paired anecdotes of “filial piety.” In one, a ...
In the conservative early years of the Roman Empire, when public speech was measured and remembrance of the Republic still lingered, ValeriusMaximus undertook a different kind of history ... Valerius Maximus and the Shadow of Tiberius.