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Numonius Vala was an Ancient Roman
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 family name (nomen and cognomen
Roman naming conventions

By the Roman Republic and throughout the Roman Empire, a name in ancient Rome for a male citizen consisted of three parts : praenomen , nomen and cognomen ....
). Several notable bearers of that name are known.

umonius Vala is known only from coins, from which it ap­pears that he had obtained renown by storming a vallum
Vallum

A vallum was a type of palisade, used as part of the Roman Empire defensive fortification system. It was usually made out of soil, sometimes enforced with wood and Rock , and also had a deep moat ....
, and had hence obtained the surname of Vala, which, according to the usual custom, be­came hereditary in his family. The coins were struck by one of his descendants in commemoration of the exploit.






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Numonius Vala was an Ancient Roman
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 family name (nomen and cognomen
Roman naming conventions

By the Roman Republic and throughout the Roman Empire, a name in ancient Rome for a male citizen consisted of three parts : praenomen , nomen and cognomen ....
). Several notable bearers of that name are known.

C. Numonius Vala

C. Numonius Vala is known only from coins, from which it ap­pears that he had obtained renown by storming a vallum
Vallum

A vallum was a type of palisade, used as part of the Roman Empire defensive fortification system. It was usually made out of soil, sometimes enforced with wood and Rock , and also had a deep moat ....
, and had hence obtained the surname of Vala, which, according to the usual custom, be­came hereditary in his family. The coins were struck by one of his descendants in commemoration of the exploit. The one pictured here has on the ob­verse the head of Numonius, with the inscription C. NVMONIVS VAALA, and on the reverse a man storming the vallum of a camp, which is defended by two others, with the inscription VAALA. Vaala is an ancient form of Vala, just as on the coins of Sulla we find Feelix instead of Felix.

Numonius Vala of the Epistles

Numonius Vala, to whom Horace
Horace

This article is about the Roman poet Horace. For other uses, see Horace .Quintus Horatius Flaccus, , known in the English language world as Horace, was the leading Roman Empire Lyric poetry during the time of Augustus....
 addresses one of his Epistles (i. 15), appears to have had estates in the neighbourhood of Velia
Velia

Velia is the Italian name of the ancient town of Elea located on the territory of the comune of Ascea, Province of Salerno, Campania, Italy in a geographical sub-area named Cilento....
 and Salernum, since the poet makes inquiries of Vala about the climate of those places, as he intended to pass the winter in one of them. As this poem was probably written about 22 BC, the friend of Horace was most likely the father of the Numonius Vala below, if not the same person.

Numonius Vala, legate

Numonius Vala was a legate
Legatus

A legatus was a general in the Roman army, equivalent to a modern general officer. Being of Roman senate rank, his immediate superior was the dux, and he outranked all military tribunes....
 of Publius Quinctilius Varus
Publius Quinctilius Varus

Publius Quinctilius Varus was a Ancient Rome politician and general under emperor Augustus, mainly remembered for having lost three Roman legions and his own life when attacked by Germanic tribes leader Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest....
 in 9 AD. He left the infantry when they were at­tacked by the enemy in the fatal Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest took place in 9 A.D. when an alliance of Germanic tribes led by Arminius, the son of Segimer of the Cherusci, ambushed and destroyed three Roman Empire Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus....
 and fled with the cavalry to the Rhine
Rhine

File:Swiss Grand Canyon.jpgThe Rhine is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe, at , with an average discharge of more than ....
, but was overtaken in his flight and slain.

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