Alberic followed the epitome of Julius Valerius.
They used as their sources Valerius, the letter to Aristotle and the Iter ad Paradisum, adding much of their own.
Valerius Antias, a younger contemporary of Quadrigarius, wrote the history of Rome from the earliest times, in a voluminous work consisting of seventy-five books.
The custom which most resembles the eucharist and agape was that known as charistia described by Valerius Maximus ii.
Valerius's translation was completely superseded by that of Leo, arch-priest of Naples in the 10th century, the socalled Historia de Preliis.