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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 547 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Roman historian, flourished in the See also:time of See also:Trajan and See also:Hadrian. He compiled, chiefly from See also:Livy, a brief See also:sketch of the See also:history of See also:Rome from the See also:foundation of the See also:city to the closing of the See also:temple of See also:Janus by See also:Augustus (25 B.C.). The See also:work, which is called See also:Epitome de T. Livid Bellorum omnium annorum DCC Libri duo, is written in a bombastic and rhetorical See also:style, and is rather a See also:panegyric of the greatness of Rome, whose See also:life is divided into the four periods of See also:infancy, youth, manhood and old See also:age. It is often wrong in See also:geographical and See also:chronological See also:FLOTOW 547 details; but, in spite of its faults, the See also:book was much used in the See also:middle ages. In the See also:MSS, the' writer is variously given as See also:Julius Florus, See also:Lucius Anneus Florus, or simply Annaeus Florus. From certain similarities of style he has been identified with Publius Annius Florus, poet, rhetorician and friend of Hadrian, author of a See also:dialogue on the question whether See also:Virgil was an orator or poet, of which the introduction has been preserved. The best See also:editions are by O. See also:Jahn (1852), C. See also:Halm (1854), which contain the fragments of the Virgilian dialogue. There is an See also:English See also:translation in See also:Bohn's Classical Library.

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