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JULIUS FLORUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 547 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JULIUS FLORUS  , poet, orator, and jurist of the Augustan age . His name has been immortalized by Horace, who dedicated to him two of his Epistles (i . 3; ii . 2), from which it would appear that he composed lyrics of a
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light, agreeable kind . The statement of Porphyrion, the old commentator on Horace, that Florus himself wrote satires, is probably erroneous, but he may have edited selections from the earlier satirists (Ennius, Lucilius, Varro) . Nothing is definitely known of his personality, except that he was one of the young men who accompanied Tiberius on his
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mission to settle the affairs of Armenia . He has been variously identified with
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Julius Florus, a distinguished orator and
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uncle of Julius Secundus, an intimate friend of Quintilian (Instil. x . 3, 13); with the leader of an insurrectionof the Treviri (Tacitus,
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Ann. iii . 40); with the Postumus of Horace (Odes, ii . 14) and even with the historian Florus .

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