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Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. XII, 1954 History & biography Historians, various biographies
VOPISCO (FLAVIUS VOPISCUS SYRACUSIUS)
VOPISCUS (Flavius Vopiscus Syracusius). - He is the sixth of the Scriptores Historiae Augustae. The manuscript tradition attributes to him the lives of the emperors Aurelian, Tacitus with his brother Florian, Probus, and of the usurpers who followed Aurelian and Probus: Firmus Saturninus, Proculus and Bonosus, Carus, Numerian and Carinus (the "thirty tyrants"). For V. too the period of composition is the Diocletianic-Constantinian one.
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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII (1954), coll. 1624–1625.
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Chicago
Turchi, Nicola. “Vopisco (Flavius Vopiscus Syracusius).” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, coll. 1624–1625. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954. https://azioneromana.com/article/vopisco-flavius-vopiscus-syracusius.
MLA
Turchi, Nicola. “Vopisco (Flavius Vopiscus Syracusius).” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1954, coll. 1624–1625. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/vopisco-flavius-vopiscus-syracusius.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec12_vopisco_flavius_vopiscus_syrac,
author = {Turchi, Nicola},
title = {Vopisco (Flavius Vopiscus Syracusius)},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {XII},
pages = {1624--1625},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1954},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/vopisco-flavius-vopiscus-syracusius}
}
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