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Justin (Marcus Junianus Justinus); second half of second century A.D.; composed an Epitome of the (now lost) Historiae Philippicae of Pompeius Trogus, a man of Gallic origin, who published his Latin Historiae some time between 20 B.C. and 14 A.D.; edn. of Justin's Epitome, together with a series of short summaries by another hand of the contents of the 44 Books of the lost work (the Prologi), by I. Ruehl (Leipzig, 1886). [Book XII contained an account of Alexander's campaigns in India; trans. of Justin's Epitome of the Book in M'Crindle, The Invasion of India. The chief source of Trogus was probably a Greek work Περὶ Βασιλέων by Timagenes of Alexandria (born between 80 and 75 B.C.), who himself drew, for his account of Alexander, mainly upon Clitarchus.]