'''Marcus Valerius Homullus''' (birth and death dates unknown) was a Roman Senator of the second century. In 152 he was consul ordinarius with Manius Acilius Glabrio Gnaeus Cornelius Severus.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Klonnek |first1=Martin |title=Chronologie des Römischen Reiches, vol.2 |date=2014 |publisher=epubli |isbn=978-3-7375-0702-8 |page=152 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vkNwBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA152 |accessdate=Aug 29, 2018}}</ref> He informed against Marcus Aurelius and Marcus' mother Domitia Lucilla to Antoninus Pius, but nothing came of that according to the Historia Augusta ("Marcus", vi.9).<ref group=Note>"...quamvis non deessent, qui aliqua adversum eum insusurrarent, et prae ceteris Valerius Homullus, qui, cum Lucillam matrem Marci in virdiario venerantem simulacrum Apollinis vidisset, insusurravit: 'Illa nunc rogat, ut diem tuum claudas, et filius imperet', quod omnino apud Pium nihil valuit."</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Adams |first1=Geoffrey William |title=Marcus Aurelius in the Historia Augusta and Beyond |date=2013 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-7391-7639-9 |page=76 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dpommWWxA9gC&pg=PA76 |accessdate=Aug 29, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=McLynn |first1=Frank |title=Marcus Aurelius: A Life |date=2009 |publisher=Da Capo Press |isbn=978-0-306-81830-1 |page=79 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BoltCoA9sacC&pg=PA79 |accessdate=Aug 29, 2018}}</ref>
On another occasion, Antoninus was visiting the house of Homullus admired some porphyry columns, asking if they had come from the imperial quarries. Homullus replied "when you enter another man's house you should be deaf and dumb."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bryant |first1=Ernest Edward |title=The Reign of Antoninus Pius |date=1895 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/reignofantoninus00bryaiala/page/95 95] |url=https://archive.org/details/reignofantoninus00bryaiala |accessdate=Aug 30, 2018}}</ref> This remark has been variously interpreted as a good-natured jab at a friend or as a slap at the Emperor.
Homullus was the ''patron'' of the city of Capua in Campania.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thomas |first1=Edmund |title=Monumentality and the Roman Empire |date=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-928863-2 |page=212 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wnATDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA212 |accessdate=Aug 30, 2018}}</ref>
==Notes== {{Reflist|group=Note}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{s-bef|before=Gaius Curtius Justus,<br/>and Publius Julius Nauto |as=suffect consuls}} {{s-ttl|title=Consul of the Roman Empire |years=152 |regent1=Manius Acilius Glabrio Gnaeus Cornelius Severus}} {{s-aft|after=Publius Sufenas, and<br/>Lucius Dasumius Tullius Tuscus |as=suffect consuls}} {{s-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Homullus, Marcus Valerius}} Category:2nd-century Roman consuls Homullus, Marcus Valerius