Aurelius Victor, Sextus (b. c. 320).

Eutropius, Flavius (b. c. 320). Historiae Romanae breviarium ad urbe condita usque ad Valentinianum et Valentem Augustos, notis et emendationibus illustravit Anna Tanaquilli... in usum serenissimi Delphini. Paris: the widow of Antoine Cellier, 1683, 4to (237 x 178mm.), [14], 68, 67-183, [1 (blank)] pp., with both cancel and cancelled I2, illustration: woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, engraved headpiece, binding: contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, without final blank, extremities slightly rubbed



together 2 volumes

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These two scholarly editions contain the works of two late fourth-century pagan historians (three of the four works in the first volume have now been assigned to Pseudo-Aurelius Victor) who wrote abbreviated histories of Rome. While generally considered of little historic merit, they are both important sources for the events of the third century, which are not well documented elsewhere. The nineteenth-century German historian Enmann postulated that both writers based their work for this period on a now-lost historical work, also from the fourth century, known as the Kaisergeschichte, which was also used by the authors of the Historia Augusta.

The editor of both these works, Anne Dacier, was a respected translator of classical literature and edited several other texts for the Delphin series.