Iustini historiarum ex Trogo Pompeio lib. XLIV cum notis Isaaci Vossii - Pompeius Trogus, Gnæus Pompey Trogue; Vossius, Isaac 1618-1689 (Leiden Elsevier, 1640)
Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus' principal work was his 44-volume Philippic Histories and the Origin of the Whole World and the Places of the Earth (Historiae Philippicae et Totius Mundi Origines et Terrae Situs), now lost, which, according to its surviving epitome, had as its principal theme the Macedonian Empire founded by Philip II but functioned as a general history of all of the parts of the world which fell under the control of Alexander the Great and his successors, with extensive ethnographical and geographical digressions.
The original text of the Philippic Histories has been lost and is preserved only in excerpts by other authors (including Vopiscus, Jerome, and Augustine) and in a loose epitome by the later historian Justin (Marcus Junianus Justinus Frontinus). Justin aimed only to preserve the parts he felt most important or interesting about Pompeius Trogus's work, with the last recorded event being the recovery of Roman standards from the Parthians in 20 BC. In the manuscripts of Justin's works, however, a separate series of summaries (prologi) of the original work have been preserved.
Written 1st century BC
Vossius created this edition at the age of 18
Bound in with Vossius' 'Brevis ad iustinum notae'
Ex libris Charles Fox (plate)
Keywords: Classical Antiquity (8th Century BC-6th Century AD); 17th Century (1601-1700); History; Politics