TROGUS, GNAEUS POMPEIUS

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TROGUS, GNAEUS POMPEIUS , Roman historian from the country of Vccontii in Gallia Narbonensis, nearly contemporary with Livy, flourished during the age of

Augustus

AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

. His grandfather served in the war against Sertorius with Pompey, through whose influence be obtained the Roman citizenship; hence the name Pompeius, adopted as a token of gratitude to his benefactor. His father served under Julius Caesar in the capacity of secretary and interpreter. Trogus himself seems to have been a man of encyclopaedic knowledge. He wrote, after Aristotle and Theophrastus, books on the natural history of animals and plants, frequently quoted by the elder Pliny. But his principal

work

WORK

was Historiae Philip

plate

PLATE

forty

FORTY

-four
'In the trogon of Cuba, Prionotelus, they are most curiously scooped out, as it were, at the extremity, and the lateral pointed ends diverge in a way almost unique among birds.
'Or two species if N. macloti be more than a local form of H. reinwardti.
books, so called because the Macedonian empire founded by Philip is the central theme of the narrative. This was a general history of the world, or rather of those portions of it which came under the sway of Alexander and his successors. It began with Ninus, the founder of Nineveh, and ended at about the same point as Livy (A.D. 9). The last event recorded by the epitomator Justin (q.v.) is the recovery of the Roman standards captured by the Parthians (20 B.C.). He left untouched Roman history up to the time when

Greece

GREECE

and the

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

came into contact with Rome, possibly because Livy had sufficiently treated it. The

work

WORK

was based upon the writings of Greek historians, such as Theopompus (also the author of a Philippica), Ephorus, Timaeus,

Polybius

POLYBIUS (c. 204–122 B.C.)

. Chiefly on the ground that such a work was beyond the powers of a Roman, it is generally agreed that Trogus did not gather together the information from the leading Greek historians for himself, but that it was already combined into a single book by some Greek (very probably Timagenes of Alexandria). His idea of history was more severe and less rhetorical than that of Sallust and Livy, whom he blamed for putting elaborate speeches into the mouths of the characters of whom they wrote. Of his

great

GREAT

work, we possess only the epitome by Justin, the prologi or summaries of the 44 books, and fragments in Vopiscus, Jerome, Augustine and other writers. But even in its present mutilated state it is often an important authority for the ancient history of the

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

. Ethnographical and geographical excursuses are a

special

SPECIAL

feature of the work.
Fragments edited by A. Bielowski (1853) ; see also, A. H. L. Heeren, De Trogi P. fontibus et auctoritate (prefixed to C. H. Frotscher's edition of Justin); A. Enmanx on the authorities used by.Trogus for Greek and Sicilian history (188o); A. von

Gutschmid

GUTSCHMID, ALFRED, BARON VON (1835-1887)

, Ober die Fragmente des Pompeius Trogus (1857) ; M. Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur (2nd ed., 1899), ii., where all that is known of Timagenes is given; Teuffel-Schwabe, Hist. of Roman Literature, 258; and article JUSTIN.

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