Gaius Julius Victor (4th century AD) was a

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writer of

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, possibly of

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origin. His extant manual is of some importance as facilitating the textual criticism of

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, whom he closely follows in many places.

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Attribution: * *''Rhetores Latini minores'',

Karl Halm Karl Felix Halm (also ''Carl''; ''Karl Felix Ritter von Halm'' after 1872; 5 April 1809 – 5 October 1882), was a German classical scholar and critic. Life He was born at Munich. In 1849, having held appointments at Speyer and Hadamar, he ...

(ed.), Lipsiae in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1863
pp. 371-448
* ''C. Julii Victoris Ars rhetorica'', Remo Giomini; Maria Silvana Celentano (eds.) Leipzig: Teubner, 1980. {{DEFAULTSORT:Julius Victor, Gaius 4th-century Romans 4th-century Latin writers Ancient Roman rhetoricians Victor, Gaius