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FESTUS (? RuFUS or RUFIUS)

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 294 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FAT-FLA
FESTUS (? RuFUS or RUFIUS) , one of the Roman writers of breviaria (epitomes of Roman history). The reference to the defeat of the Goths at Noviodunum (A.D. 369) by the emperor Valens, and the fact that the author is unaware of the constitution of Valentia as a province (which took place in the same year) are sufficient indication to fix the date of composition. Mommsen identifies the author with Rufius Festus, proconsul of Achaea (366), and both with Rufius Festus Avienus (q.v.), the translator of Aratus. But the absence of the name Rufius in the best MSS. is against this. Others take him to be Festus of Tridentum, magister memoriae (secretary) to Valens and proconsul of
Asia
 , where he was sent to punish those implicated in the conspiracy of
Theodorus
 , a commission which he executed with such merciless severity that his name became a byword. The
work
  itself (Breviarium rerum gestarum populi Romani) is divided into two partsone geographical, the other historical. The
chief
  authorities used are Livy, Eutropius and Florus. It is extremely meagre, but the fact that the last
part
  is based on the writer's personal recollections makes it of some value for the history of the 4th century.
Editions by W. Forster (Vienna, 1873) and C. Wagener (Prague, 1886) ; see also R. Jacobi, De Festi breviarii fontibus (
Bonn
 , 1894), and H. Peter, Die geschichtliche Lilt. fiber die romische Kaiserzeit
ii.
p. 133 (1897), where the epitomes of Festus, Aurelius
Victor
  and Eutropius are compared.


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