Published in Art, Criticism and Mysticism

Keywords: Keywords: Breuitas, Festus, Latin historiography in the Fourth Century AD.

The paper intends to point out how the epitomator Festus of Tridentum dealt with the ideal of brevity – the Latin breuitas – in his historical compendium. Nevertheless, it is noteworthy to mention that Festus did not use that rhetorical tool in an unvarying manner.