Justinus

Justinus was the author of an epitome of Trogus' Philippic Histories (also written in Latin), a text which has been lost and is only preserved in excerpts by other authors. Trogus was a Gallo-Roman historian who lived during the reign of the emperor Augustus and was a near contemporary with Roman historian Livy. Trogus' father and uncle served as soldiers under Pompey and Julius Caesar. Trogus' uncle was a cavalry commander in the eastern war against Mithridates in the mid 60s (Yardley, 1994:2). Yardley (1994:3-4) estimates that Justinus wrote his Epitome between 144 and 230 CE and that the final version [of Philippic Histories by Trogus] dates to the early years of the Christian era, perhaps as late as A.D. 20.