Publius Annius Florus

Publius Annius Florus was a Roman poet and rhetorician of the 2nd century AD He was a friend of Emperor Hadrian. Under his name, some poems have survived, he also considered the author of a treatise on the question whether Virgil poet or orator was, of which only the beginning is retained.

He is often identified with the historian Florus, who wrote a two-volume history of Rome.

Probably Publius Annius Florus is identical with Julius Florus and Gaius Annaeus Florus. The PND sets him together with Lucius Annaeus Florus: It is controversial whether and how many authors there was with the cognomen " Florus ". Most likely all come under the cognomen " Florus " surviving works by the same author, whose name Lucius ( Iulius o Publius ) ( o Julius Publius ) Annaeus (not Annius ) ( o Annius ) was Florus. TITAN is therefore, at the " communis opinio " according to all traditional under the name " Florus " works under Lucius Annaeus Florus.