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Lampridius

Aelius. A Latin historian, who flourished in the early part of the fourth century, under Diocletian and Constantine the Great. Of his works there are extant the lives of the emperors Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus, Pertinax, Albinus, Macrinus, etc. The life of Alexander Severus, which, according to the Palatine manuscript, is the work of Spartianus, has been by some authorities ascribed to him. The lives are to be found in the collection of the Historiae Augustae Scriptores. See Augustae Historiae Scriptores.

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