Varied history

Title(s):
  • Varied history
  • Omnimoda historia
    (Omnimoda historia, Varied history)
Period covered:
Abraham-393?
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Chronicle (chronography)
  • Form (translation)
Remarks:
The title may translate the first part of Eusebius' Chronicle (ἐπιτομὴ παντοδαπῆς ἱστορίας Ἑλλήνων καὶ βαρβάρων, 'comprehensive summary of the history of Greeks and barbarians'). In that case, Dexter translated into Latin the part of Eusebius' Chronicle (the chronography) that Jerome had left out (Van Hoof 2017).
Edition - Translation:
  • L. Van Hoof (2017) 'The Omnimoda historia of Nummius Aemilianus Dexter: A Latin translation of Eusebius' Chronography?'. Vigiliae Christianae 71: 199-204.
  • P. Van Nuffelen, L. Van Hoof (2020) The fragmentary Latin histories of Late Antiquity (A.D. 300-650): Edition, translation and commentary. Cambridge.
Fragments:
  • Jerome, On illustrious men 132
Users:
Bibliography:
  • A. Berger, J. Fontaine, L. Schmidt Peter Lebrecht Schmidt, Nummius Aemilianus Dexter, in: Jean-Denis (2020) Die Literatur im Zeitalter des Theodosius (374-430 n. Chr.). Volume Two. Munich: 692.
  • R.C. Richardson (1896) Hieronymus, Liber de viris inlustribus. Gennadius, Liber de viris inlustribus. Der sogenannte Sophronius (Texte und Untersuchungen, 14.1). Leipzig.