Numonius Vala

Numonius Vala was a combination of family name (nomen) and cognomen used by ancient Roman men of the gens Numonia.

Vaala is an ancient form of Vala, just as on the coins of Sulla we find Feelix instead of Felix.

15), appears to have had estates in the neighbourhood of Velia and Salernum, since the poet makes inquiries of Vala about the climate of those places, as he intended to pass the winter in one of them.

As this poem was probably written about 22 BC, the friend of Horace was most likely the father of the Numonius Vala below, if not the same person.

He left the infantry when they were attacked by the enemy in the fatal Battle of the Teutoburg Forest and fled with the cavalry to the Rhine, but was overtaken in his flight and slain.