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.