Sextus Aurelius Victor (c. 320 – c. 390) was a historian and politician of the
Roman Empire. Victor was the author of a short history of imperial Rome, entitled De Caesaribus and covering the period from
Augustus to
Constantius II. The work was published in 361. Under the emperor
Julian (361-363), Victor served as governor of
Pannonia Secunda; in 389 he became
praefectus urbi (urban prefect), senior imperial official in Rome.[1]
Works
Four small historical works have been ascribed to him, although only his authorship of De Caesaribus is securely established:
The four have generally been published together under the name Historia Romana. The second was first printed at
Naples about 1472, in 4to, under the name of
Pliny the Younger, and the fourth in
Strasbourg in 1505.[2]
The first edition of all four books was that of
Andreas Schott (8 volumes, Antwerp, 1579). A recent edition of the De Caesaribus is by Pierre Dufraigne (
Collection Budé, 1975).
D. Rohrbacher (2002) The Historians of Late Antiquity. London: Routledge.
Stover, Justin; Woudhuysen, George (2023). The lost history of Sextus Aurelius Victor. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
ISBN9781474492874. (
Open Access).
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Latin
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
Sexti Aurelii Victoris historia romana, Th. Chr. Harlesii (ed.), 2 voll., Londini, curante et imprimente A. J. Valpy, 1829:
vol. 1,
vol. 2 (contains the opera omnia).