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Population (1891), 28,700. Valens (vā'lenz). One of the principal generals of Vitelli us, 69 A. D. He defeated Otho at Bedriacum. Valens. Born at Cibalæ, in Pannonia, about 328: killed in the battle of Adrianople, Aug. 9,378. Roman emperor, younger brother of Val ent in i an I. by whom he was made emperor of the East in 364. He defeated and put to death his rival Procopius in 366; terminated the troubles with Persia by a truce in 377; and permitted the Goths to settle south of the Danube in 376. The Goths revolted under Frithi 377; overcame the generals the emperor, was then in Syria; and totally defeated and slew Valens himself at Adrianople Aug. 9, 378. Valentia. An island off the southwest coast of Ireland, belonging to County Kerry, in lat. 51° 56′ N., long. 10° 19′ W. Valentia harbor, on the east coast, was the terminus of the earliest submarine cables to Newfoundland. Length, 6 miles. Valentin (vä'len-tēn), Gabriel Gustav. Born at Breslau, Pru ia, July 8, 1810: died at Bern, May 24, 1883. A German physiologist, profe or at Bern from 1836. Among his works are "Lehr buch der Physio logie des Menschen" (1845), "Grundri der Physio logie des Menschen" (1846), etc. Valentine (val'en-tin), Saint. A Christian martyr of the reign of the emperor Claudius (about 270). His festival was observed on the 14th of Feb. before the time of Gregory the Great. The custom of sending valentines had its origin in a heathen practice connected with the worship of Juno on or about this day its a ociation with the saint is wholly accidental. 2. Valentine. 1. One of the "two gentlemen of Verona" in Shakspere's play of that name. A gentleman attending on the duke in Shakspere's "Twelfth Night."-3. The principal character in Congreve's "Love for Love." Better ton was famous in this part, with Mrs. Brace girdle as Angelica.-4. A light-hearted spendthrift in Beaumont and Fletcher's “Wit without Money."-5. The brother of Gretchen in Goethe's "Faust." He is killed by Faust in a street affray. Valentine. A novel by George Sand, published in 1832: so called from the name of the heroine. The scene is laid in Berry. Valentine and Orson (ôrson). A romance of the Charlemagne cycle, which was written during the reign of Charles VIII., and first printed in 1495 at Lyons. Several plays, etc., have been founded on it. Hatha way and Munday produced one in 1598. An interlude of the same name was produced in 1595. Valentine and Orson were twins, born in a forest. Orson was carried off by a bear, and became rough and uncouth. Valentine was carried off by his uncle, King Pepin, and grew up a courtier. Hence the allusions in literature. Val ent in i an I. (val-en-tin'i-an), L. Flavius Val ent in i an us (val-en-tin-i-a'nus). Born at Cibalæ, Pannonia, about 321: died at Bregetio (near Komorn), Nov. 17, 375. A Roman officer, proclaimed emperor by the army in 364. He a ociated with himself his younger brother Valens as emperor of the East, and retained the West. He was actively engaged in strengthening the northern frontiers against the barbarians. Val ent in i an II. Born about 371: murdered in 392. Son of Val ent in i an I., made a ociate emperor of the West with his half-brother Gratian in 375. He was delivered from the rivalry of the usurper Maximus by Theodosius 387-388, and was a a inated by his general Arbogast. Val ent in i an III., L. Flavius Placid us Val ent in i an us. Born 419: a a inated 455. Son of Constant i us and Placid i a, made emperor of the West in 425. His famous general Aëtius gained the victory of Châlons-sur-Marne over Attila in 451, but was murdered by Val ent in i an, from jealousy, in 454. Among the lo es of his reign were Africa (to the Vandals), Britain, and large parts of Gaul and Spain. Val ent in i an. A tragedy by Fletcher, produced before 1618, printed in 1647. It contains some beautiful songs. Val ent i no is (vä-lon-te-nwä'). A former small county of France, in Dauphiné, in the vicinity of Valence. Val ent i no is, Duche of. A title of Diana of Poitiers. Val ent in us (val-en-ti'nus). Born probably in Egypt: died about 160 A. D. One of the chief Gnostic teachers. He was educated probably in Alex. andria; went to Rome about 138; and was an instructor of Origen and Clement. Fragments of his works have survived. Val ent in us appears to have been considered the most formidable and dangerous of this school of Gnostics. He was twice excommunicated, and twice received again into the bosom of the Church. He did not confine his dangerous opinions to the school of Alexandria: he introduced the wild Oriental speculations into the more peaceful West; taught at Rome; and, a third time being expelled from the Christian society, retired to Cyprus-an island where the Jews were formerly numerous till the fatal insurrection in the time of Hadrian, and where probably the Oriental philosophy might not find an unwelcome reception, on the border, as it were, of Europe and Asia. Milman , Hist. of Christianity, II. 72. Val ent in us. Pope in 827. Valère (vä-lar'). 1. A character in a number of Molière's plays, usually a lover: found in "L'Avare," "Le dépit amoureux," "L'École des mar is," "Le médec in volant," etc.-2. The principal character in Mrs. Cent livre's play "The Gamester." Valeria (va-lē'ri-ä). 1. A character in Shakspere's "Coriolanus.”—2. A girl with a mania for biological research in Mrs. Cent livre's "Bas Valens. A pseudonym of Richard Burke. Valens; Aqueduct of. See Aqueduct of Valens . Valentia (va-len's hiä). A province in Britain, in the latter part of the Roman period, gener-set-Table." ally thought to have been between the walls of An to nine and Severus.