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Aurelius Victor

Also known as Sextus Aurelius Victor, Victor Sextus Aurelius

4th century Roman historian and politician

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Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: Ancient Rome
Place of birth: Africa
Occupation: poet
Position held: Roman governor
Languages spoken: Latin

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floruit: 0400-00-00
Commons category: Aurelius Victor
Commons Creator page: Aurelius Victor
date of birth: 0320-01-01
date of death: 0390-01-01
praenomen: Sextus
time period: Low Roman Empire
described by source: Pauly–Wissowa
gens: Aurelia gens
writing language: Latin
P13311: 1349

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Encyclopedic overview

Base of statue dedicated to Theodosius by Sextus Aurelius Victor (CIL 6.1186) Sextus Aurelius Victor (c. 320 – c. 390) was a historian and politician of the Roman Empire. Victor was the author of a now-lost monumental history of imperial Rome covering the period from Augustus to Constantius II. Under the emperor Julian (361-363), Victor served as governor of Pannonia Secunda in 361; in 389 he became praefectus urbi (urban prefect), senior imperial official in Rome.

His surviving work, entitled De Caesaribus is a brief epitome of his history, and was originally titled in the two surviving manuscripts Aurelii Victoris Historiae Abbreviatae. The work was published in 361.

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