Life of Avidius Cassius
the name prefixed in the collection, entitled
Scriptores Historiae Augustae
[see
CAPITOLINUS], to the life of Avidius Cassius. Not one
circumstance connected with this author is known; and Salmasius, following the authority of
the Palatine MS. would assign the biography in question to Spartianus. Whoever the compiler
may have been, the work itself is a miserable performance, so defective and confused, that
several of the leading events connected with the rebellion in the East would be altogether
unintelligible did we not possess more accurate and distinct sources of information. For
editions, &c. see
CAPITOLINUS.