periochae
livy
['philip reeve', 'mark winegardner', 'jo swerling', 'henrik ibsen', 'anakata', 'nora roberts', 'nikephoros phokas', 'jacqueline rayner', 'kwee tek hoay', 'francesca lia block', 'mamoru oshii', 'georges simenon', 'james madison', 'carl von clausewitz', 'juanjo guarnido', 'tim lahaye', 'usaf', 'brandon mull', 'christopher marlowe', 'sergey lukyanenko', 'luke rhinehart', 'aleister crowley', 'pran', 'elias ashmole', 'arthur sullivan', 'alexandre dumas', 'thucydides', 'luigi pulci', 'peter morgan', 'john howard griffin', 'carolus linnaeus', 'sigmund freud', 'salman rushdie', 'warren ellis', 'seishi kishimoto', 'charles darwin', 'cherith baldry', 'sarah kane', 'william dean howells', 'germaine greer', 'kenneth oppel', 'enid blyton', 'julia donaldson', 'robin hobb', 'douglas adams', 'karin slaughter', 'giulio caccini', 'dion boucicault', 'escoffier', 'alexander shulgin', 'snorri sturluson', 'samuel taylor coleridge', 'katherine kurtz', 'steven erikson', 'baldassare castiglione', 'hironobu sakaguchi', 'fred hoyle', 'justinian i', 'eduard douwes dekker', 'aphra behn', 'leslie charteris', 'martin cruz smith', 'david hilbert', 'david foster wallace', 'mary wollstonecraft godwin', 'george borrow', 'frank herbert', 'clark ashton smith', 'gustav hasford', 'george macdonald', 'louis couperus', 'stephen wolfram', 'laozi', 'julian cope', 'kyoko mizuki', 'boiardo', 'pierre beaumarchais', 'ueda akinari', 'ann leckie', 'tim powers', 'sergey brin', 'vergil', 'andre norton', 'betty comden', 'peter lombard', 'gottfried leibniz', 'sinclair lewis', 'ross macdonald', 'vance integral edition', 'kaori yuki', 'tang xianzu', 'gerard way', 'hesiod', 'herbert fields', 'julian casablancas', 'oscar wilde', 'aesop', 'justinianus', 'wolfram von eschenbach']
Julius Obsequens
Julius Obsequens was a Roman writer who is believed to have lived in the middle of the 4th century AD. The only work associated with his name is the Liber de prodigiis (Book of Prodigies), completely extracted from an epitome, or abridgment, written by Livy; De prodigiis was constructed as an account of the wonders and portents that occurred in Rome between 249 BC-12 BC. The work was first printed by the Venetian humanist, Aldus Manutius, in 1508, after a manuscript belonging to Jodocus of Verona (now lost). Of great importance was the edition by the Basle humanist Conrad Lycosthenes (1552), trying to reconstruct lost parts and illustrating the text with wood-cuts. Later editions were printed by Johannes Schefferus (Amsterdam, 1679), F. Oudendorp (Leiden, 1720) and O. Jahn (1853, with the periochae of Livy). An aspect of Obsequens' work that has inspired much interest in some circles is that references are made to things moving through the sky. These have been interpreted as reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), but may just as well describe meteors, and, since Obsequens, probably, writes in the 4th century, that is, some 400 years after the events he describes, they hardly qualify as eye-witness accounts. For the year 100 BC, for example, Obsequens writes: For the year 91 BC, he reports that: Finally, Obsequens provided another example of this phenomenon for the year 42 BC, stating simply that: