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FLORUS , See also: Roman historian, flourished in the See also: time of Trajan and See also: Hadrian
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He compiled, chiefly from See also: Livy, a brief sketch of the See also: history of See also: Rome from the foundation of the city to the closing of the See also: temple of See also: Janus by See also: Augustus (25 B.C.)
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The See also: work, which is called Epitome de T
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Livid Bellorum omnium annorum DCC Libri duo, is written in a bombastic and rhetorical See also: style, and is rather a See also: panegyric of the greatness of Rome, whose See also: life is divided into the four periods of See also: infancy, youth, manhood and old age
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It is often wrong in See also: geographical and See also: chronological
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details; but, in spite of its faults, the See also: book was much used in the See also: middle ages
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In the See also: MSS, the' writer is variously given as See also: Julius Florus, See also: Lucius Anneus Florus, or simply Annaeus Florus
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From certain similarities of style he has been identified with Publius Annius Florus, poet, rhetorician and friend of Hadrian, author of a See also: dialogue on the question whether Virgil was an orator or poet, of which the introduction has been preserved
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The best See also: editions are by O
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Jahn (1852), C
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See also: Halm (1854), which contain the fragments of the Virgilian dialogue
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There is an See also: English See also: translation in See also: Bohn's Classical Library
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