Sextus Aurelius Victor

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Sextus Aurelius Victor, prefect of Pannonia Secunda (c. 320 - c. 390) (Amm. Marc. xxi. 10), possibly the same as the consul (jointly with Valentinian I) in 373 and as the prefect of the city who is mentioned in an inscription of the time of Theodosius I.

Four small historical works have been ascribed to him on more or less doubtful grounds:

Origo Gentis Romanae
De Viris Illustribus Romae
De Caesaribus
De Vita et Moribus Imperatorum Romanorum excerpta ex Libris Sex. Aur. Victoris

The four have generally been published together under the name Historia Romana, but the fourth piece is a rechauffe of the third. The second was first printed at Naples about 1472, in four tomes, under the name of Pliny the Younger, and the fourth in Strasbourg in 1505.

The first edition of all four was that of A Schottus (8 volumes, Antwerp, 1579). The most recent edition of the De Caesaribus is by FR Pichlmayr (Munich, 1892).

External links

[LIBER DE CAESARIBVS, The Latin Library]

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