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VICTOR, SEXTUS AURELIUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 26 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VICTOR, SEXTUS AURELIUS , See also:prefect of See also:Pannonia about 36o (Amm. Marc. xxi. ro), possibly the same as the See also:consul (jointly with Valentinian) in 373 and as the prefect' of the See also:city who is mentioned in an inscription of the See also:time of See also:Theodosius. Four small See also:historical See also:works have been ascribed to him on more or less doubtful grounds—(r) Origo Gentis Romanae, (2) De Viribus Illustribus Romae, (3) De Caesaribus, (4) De Vita et Moribus Imperatorum Romanorum excerpta ex Libris See also:Sex. Aur. Victoris. The four have generally been published together under the name Historia See also:Romana, but the See also:fourth piece is a rechauffe of the third. The second was first printed at See also:Naples about 1472, in 4t0, under the name of See also:Pliny (the younger), and the fourth at See also:Strassburg in 1505. The first edition of all four was that of A. Schottus (8vo, See also:Antwerp, 1599). The most See also:recent edition of the De Caesaribus is by F. Pichlmayr (See also:Munich, 1892).

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