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EUTROPIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 958 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Roman historian, flourished in the latter See also:half of the 4th See also:century A.D. He held the See also:office of secretary (magister memoriae) at See also:Constantinople, accompanied See also:Julian on his expedition against the Persians (363), and was alive during the reign of See also:Valens (364-378), to whom he dedicates his See also:history. This See also:work (Breviarium historiae Romanae) is a See also:complete compendium, in ten books, of Roman history from the See also:foundation of the See also:city to the See also:accession of Valens. It was compiled with considerable care from the best accessible authorities, and is written generally with impartiality, and in a clear and See also:simple See also:style. Although the Latin in some instances differs from that of the purest See also:models, the work was for a See also:long See also:time a favourite elementary school-See also:book. Its See also:independent value is small, but it sometimes fills a See also:gap See also:left by the more authoritative records. The Breviarium was enlarged and continued down to the time of Justinian by See also:Paulus Diaconus (q.v.); the work of the latter was in turn enlarged by Landolfus Sagax (c. moo), and taken down to the time of the See also:emperor See also:Leo the Armenian (813–82o) in the Historia Miscella. Of the See also:Greek See also:translations by See also:Capito Lycius and Paeanius, the version of the latter is extant in an almost complete See also:state. The best edition of Eutropius is by H. See also:Droysen (1879), containing the Greek version and the enlarged See also:editions of Paulus Diaconus and Landolfus; smaller See also:critical editions, C. Wagener (1884), F. Ruhl (1887).

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des Historikers Eutropius (1892) contains a systematic See also:account of the See also:grammar and style of the author. There are numerous See also:English school editions and translations.

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