person
Lucius Coelius Antipater
Coelius Antipater
also: Coelius Antipater, Antipater
Roman historian of the later second century BC, author of a monograph on the Second Punic War; Cicero rates his style more vigorous than the earlier annalists but rough and untrained.
Reading notes
- On Divination §1.55 the Fabii, the Gellii, but most recently Coelius
Roman annalists and historians: Fabius Pictor, Gnaeus Gellius, and Lucius Coelius Antipater (the last a careful historian of the Hannibalic war). Quintus cites them as the chain of authority for these omen-stories.