Emperors and Pretenders
- Valentinus (rebel), 4th-century Roman exile who attempted a conspiracy in Roman Britain
- Valentinus (usurper) (died 644), Byzantine general and usurper, father of empress Fausta
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“How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sun-set and moon-rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.”
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