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Excerpt from The Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Vol. 2: With an English Translation The conclusions of Dessau were carried further by Otto Seeck.1 He, too, held that the biographies are the work of a single writer, but attempted to set him at a date later than Dessau's Theodosian forger, contending that he lived at the beginning of the fifth century. In defence of his theory he enumerated many apparent allusions to the post-constantinian ad ministrative and military system and asserted the presence of many inconsistencies with the earlier period. He discovered also various covert thrusts at the Emperor Honorius2 and concluded that the work was written under Constantine III., a usurper who appeared in Gaul in 407 and maintained his rule for three years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.