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TROGUS, GNAEUS POMPEIUS

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TROGUS, GNAEUS POMPEIUS , See also:Roman historian from the See also:country of Vccontii in Gallia Narbonensis, nearly contemporary with See also:Livy, flourished during the See also:age of See also:Augustus. His grandfather served in the See also:war against See also:Sertorius with See also:Pompey, through whose See also:influence be obtained the Roman citizenship; hence the name Pompeius, adopted as a token of gratitude to his benefactor. His See also:father served under See also:Julius See also:Caesar in the capacity of secretary and interpreter. Trogus himself seems to have been a See also:man of encyclopaedic knowledge. He wrote, after See also:Aristotle and See also:Theophrastus, books on the natural See also:history of animals and See also:plants, frequently quoted by the See also:elder See also:Pliny. But his See also:principal See also:work was Historiae See also:Philip See also:plate in See also:forty-four 'In the See also:trogon of See also:Cuba, Prionotelus, they are most curiously scooped out, as it were, at the extremity, and the lateral pointed ends diverge in a way almost unique among birds. 'Or two See also:species if N. macloti be more than a See also:local See also:form of H. reinwardti. books, so called because the Macedonian See also:empire founded by Philip is the central theme of the narrative. This was a See also:general history of the See also:world, or rather of those portions of it which came under the sway of See also:Alexander and his successors. It began with See also:Ninus, the founder of See also:Nineveh, and ended at about the same point as Livy (A.D. 9). The last event recorded by the epitomator See also:Justin (q.v.) is the recovery of the Roman See also:standards captured by the Parthians (20 B.C.).

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left untouched Roman history up to the See also:time when See also:Greece and the See also:East came into contact with See also:Rome, possibly because Livy had sufficiently treated it. The work was based upon the writings of See also:Greek historians, such as See also:Theopompus (also the author of a Philippica), See also:Ephorus, See also:Timaeus, See also:Polybius. Chiefly on the ground that such a work was beyond the See also:powers of a Roman, it is generally agreed that Trogus did not gather together the See also:information from the leading Greek historians for himself, but that it was already combined into a single See also:book by some Greek (very probably Timagenes of See also:Alexandria). His See also:idea of history was more severe and less rhetorical than that of See also:Sallust and Livy, whom he blamed for putting elaborate speeches into the mouths of the characters of whom they wrote. Of his See also:great work, we possess only the See also:epitome by Justin, the prologi or summaries of the 44 books, and fragments in Vopiscus, See also:Jerome, See also:Augustine and other writers. But even in its See also:present mutilated See also:state it is often an important authority for the See also:ancient history of the East. Ethnographical and See also:geographical excursuses are a See also:special feature of the work. Fragments edited by A. Bielowski (1853) ; see also, A. H. L. See also:Heeren, De Trogi P. fontibus et auctoritate (prefixed to C.

H. Frotscher's edition of Justin); A. Enmanx on the authorities used by.Trogus for Greek and Sicilian history (188o); A. von See also:

Gutschmid, Ober See also:die Fragmente See also:des Pompeius Trogus (1857) ; M. Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur (2nd ed., 1899), ii., where all that is known of Timagenes is given; See also:Teuffel-See also:Schwabe, Hist. of Roman Literature, § 258; and See also:article JUSTIN.

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