Volesus
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Volesus or Volusus, sometimes called Volesus Valerius, was the legendary eponymous ancestor of gens Valeria, one of the great patrician houses at Rome. He is said to have come to Rome with Titus Tatius, king of the Sabine town of Cures, during the reign of Romulus, the founder and first king of Rome.[1]
Little is known of Volesus, but he was a Sabine and presumably also came from the town of Cures. The few mentions of him imply that he was a powerful warrior, which would explain his presence in the retinue of Titus Tatius, although his character may also have been suggested by his name, which was believed to derive from the Latin verb, valere, to be strong, or its Oscan cognate. If a real figure, he would probably have been born early in the 8th century BC.[2]