Florus, Roman historian, lived in the time of Trajan and Hadrian. He compiled, chiefly from Livy, a brief sketch of the history of Rome from the foundation of the city to the closing of the temple of Janus by Augustus (25 BC). The work, which's called Epitome de T. Livio Bellorum omnium annorum DCC Libri duo,'s written in a bombastic and rhetorical style — a panegyric of the greatness of Rome, the life of which's divided into the periods of infancy, youth and manhood. It's often wrong in g… (More on Florus)