Rome

Breviarium ab Urbe Condita

Breviarium Historiae Romanae

Commissioned by the emperor Valens as a compact reference history of Rome from its founding to his own day, Eutropius's spare, clear Latin made the Breviarium a standard schoolroom text for summarizing Roman history well into the medieval period.

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