Year: 1924 (Reprint 1961)
Author: Velleius Paterculus C.
Genre: History
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Series: The Loeb Classical Library
Language: Latin / English
Format: PDF
Number of Pages: 468
In this book: The work of the talented Roman author Walle Paterkul (circa 19 BC - 31 AD), serving as a military tribune in Greece, Macedonia, Thrace and Asia Minor, and as Chief of the Cavalry and Legate in Tiberius, who participated in his campaigns in Germany and Pannonia, who was a quaestor in 7 and praetor in 15, - "Roman history" (in two books, the coverage of events from the Trojan War to the plot of Sejan), which contains a lot of valuable information , short figurative descriptions of events, expressive portraits and spectacular statements. And the so-called "Acts of the Divine Augustus" (the name is given by Mommsen T.), a large inscription in Latin and Greek (found in Ankira in 1555, two more exactly the same inscriptions were found in the cities of Antioch and Apollonia), the author - Emperor Augustus, who made it, when he was in his 76th year (13th - 14th), in the inscription the author extols his activity in every possible way.
The book contains Latin and Latin-Greek texts and the English translation, articles and index.
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