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1 Florus, Lucius Annaeus JOHN SERRATI Lucius Annaeus Florus authored a history of Rome from the foundation of the city through to the Imperial period. He says that he is writing “not much less than two hundred years” since the time of AUGUSTUS (1 praef.

Epitome de tito livio biography

8); this statement likely refers to the birth of the first emperor in 63 CE, so most scholars make him active late in the reign of HADRIAN or early in that of ANTONINUS PIUS, the s or s, though some have placed him as late as the s.

In manuscripts he usually appears as L. Annaeus Florus, though he is also called L. Anneus Florus and Julius Florus. Most moderns treat him as a separate person from rhetorician and poet Publius Annius Florus; however, this is by no means certain.

His work, the Epitome bellorum omnium annorum DCC (Summary of all the wars over the last years) was from an early date called an epitome of LIVY, which much of it certainly is, though in all likelihood the author meant it to be seen as a