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FENESTELLA

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 254 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FENESTELLA , See also:

Roman historian and encyclopaedic writer, flourished in the reign of Tiberius. If the See also:notice in See also:Jerome be correct, he lived from 52 B.C. toA.D. 19 (according to others 35 B.C.—A.D. 36). Taking See also:Varro for his See also:model, Fenestella was one of the See also:chief representatives of the new See also:style of See also:historical See also:writing which, in the See also:place of the brilliant descriptive pictures of See also:Livy, discussed curious and out-of-the-way incidents and customs of See also:political and social See also:life, including See also:literary See also:history. He was the author of an Annales, probably from the earliest times down to his own days. The fragments indicate the See also:great variety of subjects discussed: the origrin of the See also:appeal to the See also:people (provocatio); the use of elephants in the See also:circus See also:games; the wearing of See also:gold rings; the introduction of the See also:olive See also:tree; the material for making the toga; the cultivation of the See also:soil; certain details as to the lives of See also:Cicero and See also:Terence. The See also:work was very much used (mention is made of an abridged edition) by See also:Pliny the See also:elder, Asconius Pedianus (the commentator on Cicero), Nonius, and the philologists. Fragments in H. See also:Peter, Historicorum Romanorum fragmenta (1883); see also monographs by L. Mercklin (1844) and J. Poeth (1849); M.

Schanz, Geschichte der rem. Litt. ed. 2 (19o1); See also:

Teuffel, Hist. of Roman Literature, p. 259. A work published under the name of L. Fenestella (De magistratibus et sacerdotiis Romanorum, 151o) is really by A. D. Fiocchi, See also:canon and papal secretary, and was subsequently published as by him (under the latinized See also:form of his name, Floccus), edited by Aegidius See also:Witsius (1561).

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