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Friday, 8 May 2020

Poems: I - Publius Annius Florus

I've no mind to be a Caesar,
Strolling round among the Britons,
Wandering about Pannonia,
Victim of the Scythian hoar-frosts.

Publius Annius Florus (c.74 - ?) Egypt
Translated by J. Wight Duff and Arnold M. Duff
Source: Florus, Loeb Classical Library, 1934 (revised 1935)
  • This poem is quoted in Historia Augusta (The Life of Hadrian, 16:3)
  • Pannonia was a province of the Roman Empire bounded on the north and east by the Danube

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