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FLORUS, PUBLIUS ANNIUS , See also:Roman poet and rhetorician, identified by some authorities with the historian Florus (q.v.). The introduction to a See also: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 in See also:Africa, and at an See also:early See also:age took See also:part in the See also:literary contests on the Capitol instituted by See also:Domitian. Having been refused a See also:prize owing to the See also:prejudice against See also:African provincials, he See also:left See also:Rome in disgust, and after travelling for some See also:time set up at Tarraco as a teacher of See also: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's See also:answer by Aelius Spartianus (Hadrian 16). Twenty-six See also: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 of a number of 2nd-See also:century African writers who exercised a considerable See also:influence on Latin literature, and also the first• of the poetae neoterici or See also:novelli (new-fashioned poets) of Hadrian's reign, whose See also:special characteristic was the use of lighter and graceful metres (anapaestic and See also:iambic dimeters), which had hitherto found little favour. The little poems will be found in E. Bahrens, Poetae See also:Latini minores (1879–1883) ; for an unlikely See also:identification of Florus with the author of the Pervigilium Veneris (q.v.) see E. H. O. See also: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 in Pauly-Wissowa's Realencyclopadie, i. pt. 2 (1844).

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