Florus

Florus, generally, but on insufficient evidence, called L. Annaeus Florus, was a Roman historian who flourished in the reign of Trajan or Hadrian, but of whose life we know nothing. He wrote an epitome of Roman history (Epitome de Gestis Romanorum), based mainly on Livy, from the foundation of the city to the time of Augustus, in an inflated and metaphorical style. The best edition is that of O. Jahn (1852), as revised by C. Halm (1854). See the books by Sprengel (1861) and Reber (1865).