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Paterculus may have been born c. 19 BC in Aeclanum, a major centre of Hirpinia. Velleius’s father was of equestrian status, and his mother belonged to a distinguished Campanian family.
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Compendium of the History of Rome: Book I & II
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Compendium of Roman History consists of two books dedicated to M. Vinicius, and covers the period from the dispersion of the Greeks after the siege of Troy down to the death of Livia (AD 29). The first book brings the history down to the destruction of Carthage in 146 BC; portions of it are missing, including the beginning. The later history, especially the period from the death of Julius Caesar, 44 BC, to the death of Augustus, AD 14, is treated in much greater detail. Brief notices are given of Greek and Roman literature, but no mention is made of Plautus, Horace or Propertius. The author does not display real historical insight, although generally trustworthy in his statements of individual facts. He may be regarded as a courtly annalist rather than an historian. His chronology is inconsistent. On Caesar, Augustus and above all on his patron Tiberius, he lavishes praise or flattery. The repetitions, redundancies, and slovenliness of expression may be partly due to the haste with which (as the author frequently states) it was written. The inflated rhetoric, the straining after effect by means of hyperbole, antithesis and epigram, belong firmly to the Silver Age, of which Paterculus is the earliest example. He purposed to write a fuller history of the later period, including the civil war between Caesar and Pompey and the wars of Tiberius; but there is no evidence that he did so. His chief authorities were Cato's Origines, the Annales of Quintus Hortensius, Pompeius Trogus, Cornelius Nepos, and Livy. Velleius Paterculus was little known in antiquity. He seems to have been read by Lucan and imitated by Sulpicius Severus, but he is mentioned only by the scholiast on Lucan, and once by Priscian. Odins Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankinds literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
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Marcus Velleius Paterculus
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He served as military tribune in Thrace, Macedonia, Greece, and the East, and as prefect of cavalry and legatus he served for eight years (from ad 4) in Germany and in Pannonia under the future emperor Tiberius. He was quaestor in ad 7 and praetor in 15 and was still alive in 30, for he dedicated his work to Marcus Vinicius as consul for that year.
Velleius wrote a compendium of Roman history from the origins to ad 29. Almost all of Book 1 is lost (up to the Battle of Pydna, 168 bc). The period from the death of Julius Caesar to that of Augustus is treated most fully, and the achievements of his old commander, Tiberius, are described in eulogistic terms. Velleius’s account provides a glimpse of the official imperial version of events that would be described by the historian Tacitus and the biographer Suetonius in the 2nd century from the opposition (i. e. , senatorial) perspective. In addition, Velleius witnessed and participated in many of the events he describes. His style is that of the Silver Age, employing antithesis, epigram, and rhetorical embellishment.
He was still alive in AD 30, for his history contains many references to the consulship of M. Vinicius in that year. It has been conjectured that he was put to death in AD 31 as a friend of Sejanus, whom he praises.
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He. written in a highly rhetorical style, covered the period from the end of the Trojan War to the death of Livia in 29 AD, but is most useful for the period from the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BC. to the death of Augustus in 14 AD. For his services he was rewarded with the quaestorship in AD 8, and, together with his brother, with the praetorship in AD 15.
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Compendium of the History of Rome: Book I & II
(Compendium of Roman History consists of two books dedicat...)
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Velleius Paterculus, Vol. 2: Chapters XLI-CXXXI (Classic Reprint) (Latin Edition)
(Excerpt from Velleius Paterculus, Vol. 2: Chapters XLI-CX...)
- M. Velleius Paterculus. Cum Notis Gerardi Vossii G. F.
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Compendium of the History of Rome: Book I & II
