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SOURCE: "Eutropius: His Life and Career," Echos du Monde Classique/Classical Views, Vol. 32, n.s., No. 7, 1988, pp. 51-60.
In the essay that follows, Bird attempts to reconstruct the details of Eutropius's life, particularly his career as a Roman administrator.
In spite of the confident assertions of many modern scholars,1 what we know for certain about the life and career of Eutropius, the author of the once popular Breviarium ab urbe condita, is extremely limited. What follows, therefore, is a considered, but tentative, reconstruction.
Eutropius, like his contemporary and fellow-abbreviator, Sextus Aurelius Victor, was born soon after A.D. 320,2 for he is called a contemporary of the Emperors Valens (b. 328?) and Julian (b. 331)3 and must have been at least in his mid- to late thirties when he was magister epistularum of Constantius prior to 361,4 and somewhat older in 369 when he served in the senior position of magister memoriae under...
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