JUSTI'NUS, the historian, is supposed to have lived under Ante 'Anus Pius, as it would appear from the preface to hie History, which he addresses to that emperor. The passage in which the emperor's name occurs la found in the older editions, hut its eutheoticity is disputed. Nothing else is known of his personal history. lie oom• piled an abridgement or epitome of the Universal History of Trogus Pompeius, who lived in the time of Augustus, and which consisted of forty-four volumes, as Justin tells us in his preface. The work of ' Trogus is unfortunately lost, except the prologi or heads of contents of each book, from which it appears that Justinus has been at times a careless abbreviator, having entirely omitted several interesting subjects which were treated by Trogue, such as in book I., the Recount of the rEolian and Ionian cities in Asia, of the origin of the nisei or Etrusci in Italy, and of the cities of Egypt. Another charge against Justinus is the confused order in which he has narrated ascots, but this fault may be ascribed to the text of Trogeus. Book i. treats of the Assyrians from Nious to Sardanspalus, and of the Medians, Lydians, and Persians to Darius Ilystaspes. The next five books are
occupied by the history of the Greek and Persian wars ; but by far the largest part of the work, from book vii. to book xvii. inclusive, is engrossed by the history of the Macedonian kingdom and empire, before and after Alexander. Books xviii. to =Hi. treat of Carthago and Sicily ; books xxiv. to xl. treat of Greece, 3lacedouia, Asia, end Egypt, under the successors of Alexander down to the Roman con quest; books xli, and xlii, treat of the Parthians ; book xliiL treats of the origin of Rome and of Massilia (Marseille); and the last book is upon the history of Spain. Book xxxvi., in which the author speaks of the Jews, has been commented upon by J. J. Schudt, in hie ' Histories Judaioes ex Gentilium Scriptis Collectse,' 8vo, Frank furt, 1700. Among the best of the numerous editions of Justinus may be mentioned that by Abr. Gronovius, with variorum notes and dissertations, 1719, reprinted in 1760; that of J. G. Grrevius, Leyden, 1683; that of the Bipontine Society, 1802; that of Wetzel, 1806; and that of Frotscher, 1627.