Epitome rerum romanarum Cum notis integris Cl. Salmasii et selectissimis Variorum accurante S.M.D.C. additus etiam L. Ampelius ex Bibliotheca L. Salmasii - Florus, Lucius Annaeus c. 74-130; Salmasius, Claudius 1588-1653 (Amsterdam Elsevier, 1674)
Originally 'Epitome de T. Livio Bellorum onium annorum DCC Libri duo' (c. 100)
This is the chief work of the Roman historian Lucius Annaeus Florus, who lived at the beginning 2nd century AD. It is an abridgement in four books of Roman history with special reference to the wars waged up to the age of Augustus. It may be considered to be an epitome of Livy, who he sometimes quotes verbatim. Florus also consulted works of Sallust and Caesar. The style is florid and poetic. Florus 'shows a certain literary gift, marred, however,by a strong tendency to rhetoric. His brevity often entails obscurity, though he sometimes produces a felicitous epigram. (.) As an historian he is often inaccurate in both chronology and geography, but the work as a whole achieves a limited success as a rapid sketch of Roman military history'. (OCD, 2nd ed. p. 442)
Claude Saumaise (1588-1653) was a classical scholar
frontispiece etched by C. V. Dalen (Cornelis van Dalen, 1602-1665)
3 works in 1 volume: 1. Epitome rerum Romanarum, pages 1-459 -- 2. Epitome altera historiae Romanae; sive, Argumenta librorum T. Livii, etiam illorum qui interciderunt, eodem Floro, ut vulgo volunt, auctore, pages [461]-560, separate from the title page - Index, etc., pages 561-588 and [108] unnumbered pages -- 3. Lucius Ampelius ex bibliotheca Cl. Salmasii, 46 pages. with title page and new numbers but coeval index.
Ex Libris William Gordon (Plate)
Keywords: 17th Century (1601-1700); Classical Antiquity (8th Century BC-6th Century AD); History