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'''Valerius Maximus Basilius''' (c. 330 – aft. 364) was a [[Proconsul]] of [[Achaea (Roman province)|Achaea]] and a [[Praefectus Urbi]] Romae between AD 361 and 363.<ref name="Mennen2011">{{cite book|author=Inge Mennen|title=Power and Status in the Roman Empire, AD 193-284|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=uZqQjkb07g8C&pg=PA127|date=26 April 2011|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-20359-1|pages=127–}}</ref>

He was the son of [[Lucius Valerius Maximus Basilius (consul)|Lucius Valerius Maximus Basilius]] and second wife Vulcacia. He married Saint [[Melania the Elder]] or Maior, one of the wealthiest citizens of the empire, born in [[Hispania]], when she was fourteen, and they lived in the suburbs of Rome.  When his wife was twenty-two, he and two of their three sons died of disease; Melania moved to Rome with their remaining son, and she became a [[Christian]].

Valerius Maximus Basilius's surviving son, Valerius Publicola (or Poplicola), married Caeionia Albina, (born ca. 368 to), the daughter of [[Caeionius Rufius Albinus]].   Their daughter became Saint [[Melania the Younger]] or Minor.{{Citation needed|date=January 2010}}

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