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• A Roman historian of the Augustan age. Drawing principally on Greek sources, he wrote a universal history from Ninus to his own time, which he called "Philippian Histories", because the fortunes of Philip of Macedon and his line formed the central point of the narrative: all that remains of its 44 books is the table of contents and some few fragments.

1910 - Warner's dictionary of authors ancient and modern
By Charles Dudley Warner