PUBLIUS ANNIUS See also:

• FLORUS
• FLORUS, JULIUS
• PUBLIUS ANNIUS FLORUS

FLORUS  , See also:

• ROMAN

Roman poet and rhetorician, identified by some authorities with the historian See also:

• FLORUS
• FLORUS, JULIUS
• FLORUS, PUBLIUS ANNIUS

Florus (q.v.) . The introduction to a See also:

• DIALOGUE

dialogue called Virgilius orator an poeta is extant, in which the author (whose name is given as Publius Annius Florus) states that he was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• AFRICA
• AFRICA, ROMAN

Africa, and at an See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

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

age took See also:

• PART

part in the See also:

• LITERARY

literary contests on the Capitol instituted by See also:

• DOMITIAN (Thus FLAVIUS DOMITIANUS)

Domitian . Having been refused a See also:

• PRIZE, or PRIZE OF WAR (Fr. prise, from prendre, to take)

prize owing to the See also:

• PREJUDICE (Lat. praejudicium)

prejudice against See also:

• AFRICAN

African provincials, he See also:

• LEFT

left See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome in disgust, and after travelling for some 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 set up at Tarraco as a teacher of See also:

• RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

rhetoric . Here he was persuaded by an acquaintance to return to Rome, for it is generally agreed that he is the Florus who wrote the well-known lines quoted together with See also:

• HADRIAN (PUBLICS AELIUS HADRIANUS)

Hadrian's See also:

• ANSWER (derived from and, against, and the same root as swear)

answer by Aelius Spartianus (Hadrian 16) . Twenty-six See also:

• TROCHAIC (from Gr. rpoxalos, rpoxaixos; Lat. trochaeus)

trochaic tetrameters, De qualitate vitae, and five graceful hexameters, De rosis, are also attributed to him . Florus is important as being the first in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order of a number of 2nd-See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century African writers who exercised a considerable See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence on Latin literature, and also the first• of the poetae neoterici or See also:

• NOVELLI, ERMETE (1851- )

novelli (new-fashioned poets) of Hadrian's reign, whose See also:

• SPECIAL

special characteristic was the use of lighter and graceful metres (anapaestic and See also:

• IAMBIC

iambic dimeters), which had hitherto found little favour . The little poems will be found in E . Bahrens, Poetae See also:

• LATINI, BRUNETTO (c. 1210-C. 1294)

Latini minores (1879–1883) ; for an unlikely See also:

• IDENTIFICATION (Lat. idem, the same)

identification of Florus with the author of the Pervigilium Veneris (q.v.) see E . H . O . See also:

• MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
• MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
• MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
• MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
• MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
• MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
• MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
• MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
• MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
• MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)

Muller, De P . Annio Floro poeta et de Pervigilio Veneris (1855), and, for the poet's relations with Hadrian, F .

Eyssenhardt, Hadrian and Florus (1882) ; see also F . See also:

• MARX, HEINRICH KARL (1818-1883)

Marx in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopadie, i. pt . 2 (1844) .