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Granius Licinianus

Granius Licinianus, Roman annalist, probably lived in the age of the Antonines[?] (2nd century AD).

He was the author of a brief epitome of Roman history based upon Livy, which he utilized as a means of displaying his antiquarian lore. Accounts of omens, portents, prodigies and other remarkable things apparently took up a considerable portion of the work. Some fragments of the books relating to the years 163-178 BC are preserved in a British Museum manuscript.

Editions

  • CA Pertz (1857)
  • seven Bonn students (1858)
  • M Flemisch (1904)
  • see also JN Madvig, Kleine philologische Schriften (1875)

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.



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