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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 547 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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FLORUS, See also:
JULIUS
JULIUS , poet, orator, and jurist of the Augustan See also:

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

age. His name has been immortalized by See also:

HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace, who dedicated to him two of his Epistles (i. 3; ii. 2), from which it would appear that he composed lyrics of a See also:

LIGHT

light, agreeable See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind. The statement of Porphyrion, the old commentator on Horace, that Florus himself wrote satires, is probably erroneous, but he may have edited selections from the earlier satirists (See also:

ENNIUS, QUINTUS (239-170 B.c.)

Ennius, See also:

LUCILIUS, GAIUS (c. 18o–ro3 B.C.)

Lucilius, See also:

Varro). Nothing is definitely known of his See also:

PERSONALITY (from Lat. persona, originally an actor's mask, from personare,1 to sound through)

personality, except that he was one of the See also:

young men who accompanied Tiberius on his See also:

MISSION

mission to See also:

settle the affairs of See also:

ARMENIA (old Persian Armina, Armenian Hayasdan, or Hayq)

Armenia. He has been variously identified with Julius Florus, a distinguished orator and See also:

UNCLE

uncle of Julius See also:

Secundus, an intimate friend of See also:

QUINTILIAN [MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIANUS] (C. A.D. 35-95)

Quintilian (Instil. x. 3, 13); with the See also:

LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader of an insurrectionof the Treviri (See also:

Tacitus, See also:

Ann. iii. 40); with the Postumus of Horace (Odes, ii. 14) and even with the historian Florus.

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