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		Lucius Coelius Antipater was a Roman jurist and historian.  He is not to be confused with Coelius Sabinus, the Coelius of the Digest.  He was a contemporary of C. Gracchus (b. c. 123); L. Crassus, the orator, was his pupil.


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	1 Style
	2 Writings
	3 Editions
	4 Reception
	5 References






Style[edit]

He was the first who endeavoured to impart to Roman history the ornaments of style, and to make it more than a mere chronicle of events, but his diction was rather vehement and high-sounding than elegant and polished. Pomponius[1] considers him more an orator than a jurist; Cicero, on the other hand, prizes him more as a jurist than as an orator or historian.[2]


Writings[edit]

None of his juridical writings have been preserved. He wrote a history of the Second Punic War, and composed annals, which were epitomized by Brutus.[3]

Antipater followed the Greek history of Silenus Calatinus,[4] and occasionally borrowed from the Origines of Cato the Elder.[5]  He is occasionally quoted by Livy, who sometimes, with respectful consideration, dissents from his authority. It is manifest, however, from Cicero and Valerius Maximus that he was fond of relating dreams and portents.


Editions[edit]

Orelli[6] refers to the dissertations on Antipater by Bavius Antius Nanta and G. Groen van Prinsterer, inserted in the Annals of the Academy of Leyderi for 1821. His fragments, several of which are preserved by Nonius Marcellus, are to be found appended to editions of Sallust by Joseph Wasse, Corte, and Havercamp; and also in Krause's Vitae et Fragmenta vet. Histor, Mom. p. 182, etc.


Reception[edit]

Hadrian is reported to have preferred him as an historian to Sallust (Historia Augusta, Hadrian, c. 16); by Valerius Maximus[7] he is designated "certus Romanae historiae auctor" (a reliable authority on Roman history).


References[edit]


	^ Dig. 1. tit. 2. s. 2. § 40.

	^ De Oratore ii. 12; de Legg. 1, 2; Brutus c. 26.

	^ Cic. ad Ait. xiii. 8.) - indeed, that history may be an extract from the Annals itself.

	^ Cic. de Div. i.,24, 49.

	^ Gell. x. 24; Macrobius Saturnalia i. 4, extr.

	^ Onomast. Cio.

	^ i. 7.





	 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Antipater, L. Coelius". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 202.


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