Epitome of Roman history

Author(s)

• Florus, Lucius Annaeus
• Forster, E. S. (Edward Seymour)

Bibliographic Information

Epitome of Roman history

Florus ; with an English translation by Edward Seymour Forster

（The Loeb classical library, 231）

Harvard University Press , W. Heinemann, 1984

Separate ed

• : American
• : British

Other Title

Florus

Note

Latin text and parallel English translation on opposite pages

First printed (with Cornelius Nepos) in 1929

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Florus, born apparently in Africa, lived in Spain and in Rome in Hadrian's time. He wrote, in brief pointed rhetorical style, a summary of Roman history (especially wars) in two books in order to show the greatness and decline of Roman morals. It is based chiefly on Livy. It was perhaps planned to reach his own times, but the extant work ends with Augustus's reign (30 BCE 14 CE). This Epitome is a useful rapid sketch of Roman military history. Poetry by Florus is also available in the Loeb Classical Library, in Minor Latin Poets, Volume II.

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Details

• NCID: BA10070006
• ISBN:
  • 0674992547
  • 0434992313
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: englat
• Original Language Code: lat
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.,London
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 381, 8 p.
• Size: 17 cm
• Classification:
  • NDLC : KE211
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00254115