Title(s):
- Epitome de Caesaribus
- Libellus de vita et moribus imperatorum breviatus ex libris Sexti Aurelii Victoris a Caesare Augusto usque ad Theodosium(Libellus de vita et moribus imperatorum breviatus ex libris Sexti Aurelii Victoris a Caesare Augusto usque ad Theodosium, Small book on the life and the habits of the emperors, abridgement of Sextus Aurelius Victor’s books, from Caesar Augustus to Theodosius)
Period covered:
Augustus-Theodosius the Great
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Full
Genre:
- Secular history (breviarium)
Remarks:
The work was part of the Corpus Aurelianum, on which see the entry for Anonymous, Origins of the Roman people. The title of the work presents it as an epitome of Aurelius Victor. Yet, the historian is just one of the sources of the Breviarium (Festy 2002: xii-xxviii). It is probable that the title orginally included the name of the other sources too but was later abridged (Festy 2002: viii-xii).Stover and Woudhuysen 2021 argue that the Epitome used Jordanes and hence dates to the late sixth century at the earliest.