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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
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FLORUS  , poet, orator, and jurist of the Augustan
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age . His name has been immortalized by
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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
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kind . The statement of Porphyrion, the old commentator on Horace, that
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Florus himself wrote satires, is probably erroneous, but he may have edited selections from the earlier satirists (
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Ennius,
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Lucilius,
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Varro) . Nothing is definitely known of his
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personality, except that he was one of the
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young men who accompanied Tiberius on his
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mission to
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settle the affairs of
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Armenia . He has been variously identified with
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Julius Florus, a distinguished orator and
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uncle of Julius
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Secundus, an intimate friend of
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Quintilian (Instil. x . 3, 13); with the
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leader of an insurrectionof the Treviri (
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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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