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HIRTIUS, AULUS (c. 90-43 B.C.)

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 525 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR
HIRTIUS, AULUS (c. 90-43 B.C.) , Roman historian and states-man. He was with
Julius
  Caesar as legate in Gaul, but after the civil war broke out in 49 he seems to have remained in Rome to protect Caesar's interests. He was also a personal friend of Cicero. He was nominated with C. Vibius Pansa by Caesar for the consulship of 43; and after the dictator's assassination in
March
  44, he and his colleague supported the senatorial party against M.
Antonius
 , with whom Hirtius had at first sided. The consuls set out for Mutina, where
Antonius
  was besieging Decimus Brutus. On the 15th of April, Pansa was attacked by Antonius at Forum Gallorum, about 8 m. from Mutina, and lost his life in the engagement. Hirtius, however, compelled Antonius to retire on Mutina, where another battle took place on the 25th (or 27th) of April, in which Hirtius was slainy Of the continuations of Caesar's Commentariesthe eighth book of the Gallic war, the history of the Alexandrian,
African
  and Spanish warsthe first is generally allowed to be by Hirtius; the Alexandrian war is perhaps by him (or Oppius); the last two are supposed to have been written at his request, by persons who had taken
part
  in the events described, with a view to subsequent revision and incorporation in his proposed
work
  on military commanders. The language of Hirtius is good, but his style is monotonous and lacks vigour.
Hirtius and the other continuators of Caesar are discussed in M. Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Literatur, i.; also R. Schneider, Bellum Africanum (19o5). For the history of the period see under ANTONIUS; Cicero's Letters (ed.
Tyrrell
  and Purser); G. Boissier, Cicero and his Friends (Eng. trans., 1897).


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