Epitome de Caesaribus attributed to Aurelius Victor

Background and Biography

Background and Biography

Excerpts

English

• Biographical section on Roman Emperor Titus
• Section 10.10 - Titus Lines 12-13
• from a translation to English by Thomas M. Banchich

In his time, Mount Vesuvius in Campania began to flame, and at Rome there was a fire for three days and three nights without an evening's respite. Pestilence, too, there was, as much as scarcely ever before.

Latin

• Biographical section on Roman Emperor Titus
• Section 10.9 - Lines 12-13
• from the edition of Franz Pichlmayr (Teubner 1911)

[12] Huius tempore mons Vesubius in Campania ardere coepit, incendiumque Romae sine nocturna requie per triduum fuit. [13] Lues quoque, quanta vix umquam antea, fuit.

Chronology

Year	Reference	Corrections	Notes
24 June 79 – 13 September 81 CE	plague and fire in Rome during the reign of Titus	none	Titus ruled from 24 June 79 – 13 September 81 CE

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