Eutropius
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Eutropius
Year of birth unknown; died circa 370. Roman historian.
Circa 367, at the behest of the emperor Valens, Eutropius wrote a concise ten-volume history of Rome, from its founding to the beginning of the reign of Valentinian I in 364. Eutropius’ work was long used as a textbook. It is of primary value in studying the period of the third and fourth centuries, which is scantily covered in other sources.
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In Russian translation:Sokrashchenie rimskoi istorii do vremen kesarei Valenta i Valentiniana. [Moscow] 1779. (Translated from Latin.)
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