Note 924 — Chapter VI · LUCAN: HISTORICAL EPIC

Lucan’s influence on Appian, Dio Cassius and Orosius, asserted by Ussani, is denied on good grounds by Pichon (op. cit., pp. 81 sqq.). Westerburg (Rh. M., xxxviii. pp. 34 sqq.) maintains that Florus drew from Lucan, and so did not simply summarize Livy. Against this theory powerful arguments are arrayed by Pichon (op. cit., pp. 69-81). Postgate (ed. Bk. VIII., postscript to introd.) remarks that much of the difficulty would be removed by the assumption that the epitomator of Livy used Lucan as well as Livy and that Florus used the epitome.