See also:

• ANNALISTS (from Lat. annas, year; hence annales, sc. libri, annual records)

ANNALISTS (from See also:

• LAT

Lat. annas, See also:

• YEAR

year; hence annales, sc. libri, See also:

• ANNUAL

annual records)  , the name given to a class of writers on See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• HISTORY

history, the See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of whose See also:

• LITERARY

literary activity lasted from the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of the Second Punic See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War to that of See also:

• SULLA, LUCIUS CORNELIUS (138–78 B.C.)

Sulla . They wrote the history of See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome from the earliest times (in most cases) down to their own days, the events of which were treated in much greater detail . For the earlier period their authorities were See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state and See also:

• FAMILY

family records—above all, the annales maximi (or annales pontificum), the See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official See also:

• CHRONICLE (from Gr. Xpovos, time)

chronicle of Rome, in which the notable occurrences of each See also:

• YEAR

year from the See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation of the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city were set down by the See also:

• PONTIFEX

pontifex maxilnus . Although these See also:

• ANNALS (Annales, from annus, a year)

annals were no doubt destroyed at the time of the burning of Rome by the Gauls, they were restored as far as possible and continued until the pontificate of P . Mucius See also:

• SCAEVOLA

Scaevola, by whom they were finally published in eighty books . Two generations of these See also:

• ANNALISTS (from Lat. annas, year; hence annales, sc. libri, annual records)

annalists have been distinguished—an older and a younger . The older, which extends to 150 L.C., set forth, in bald, unattractive See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language, without any pretensions to See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style, but with a certain amount of trustworthiness, the most important events of each successive year . See also:

• CICERO

Cicero (De Oratore, ii . 12 . 53), comparing these writers with the old Ionic logographers, says that they paid no See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to See also:

• ORNAMENT (Lat. ornare, to adorn)

ornament, and considered the only merits of a writer to be intelligibility and conciseness . Their annals were a See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere compilation of facts . The younger See also:

• GENERATION (from Lat. generare, to beget, procreate; genus, stock, race)

generation, in view of the requirements and See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

criticism of a See also:

• READING

reading public, cultivated the See also:

• ART

art of See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition and rhetorical embellishment .

As a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• RULE

rule the annalists wrote in a spirit of uncritical patriotism, which led them to minimize or See also:

• GLOSS, GLOSSARY

gloss over such disasters as the See also:

• CONQUEST

conquest of Rome by See also:

• PORSENA (or PORSENNA), LARS

Porsena and the compulsory See also:

• PAYMENT (Fr. paiement, from payer, to pay; Lat. pacare, to appease, pax, peace)

payment of See also:

• RANSOM (from Lat. redemptio, through Fr. rancon)

ransom to the Gauls, and to flatter the See also:

• PEOPLE

people by exaggerated accounts of Roman prowess, dressed up in fanciful language . At first they wrote in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek, partly because a See also:

• NATIONAL

national style was not yet formed, and partly because Greek was the fashionable language amongst the educated, although Latin versions were probably published as well . The first of the annalists, the See also:

• FATHER

father of Roman history, as he has been called, was Q . See also:

• FABIUS

FABIUS PICTOR (see FABIUS PICTOR) ; contemporary with him was L . Cincius ALIMENTUS, who flourished during the Hannibalic war.' Like Fabius Pictor, he wrote in Greek . He was taken prisoner by See also:

• HANNIBAL
• HANNIBAL (" mercy " or " favour of Baal ")

Hannibal (See also:

• LIVY [Thus L1v1us] (59 B.C.—A.D: 17)

Livy xxi . 38), who is said to have given him details of the See also:

• CROSSING

crossing of the See also:

• ALPS

Alps . His See also:

• WORK

work embraced the history of Rome from its foundation down to his own days . With M . PORCIUS See also:

• CATO, DIONYSIUS
• CATO, MARCUS PORCIUS (234—149 B.c.)
• CATO, MARCUS PORCIUS (95-46 B.c.)
• CATO, PUBLIUS VALERIUS

CATO (q.v.) See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical composition ' He is not to be confused with L . Cincius, the author of various See also:

• POLITICAL

political and antiquarian See also:

• TREATISES

treatises (de Fastis, de Comitiis, de Priscis Verbis), who lived in the Augustan See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age, to which period See also:

• MOMMSEN, THEODOR (1817–1903)

Mommsen, considering them a later fabrication, refers the Greek annals of L . Cincius Alimentus .