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If this made him a superficial statesman, it made him a prompt one; and there was never so lucky a minister with so little trouble to himself.* * At his death appeared the following pnnning epigram: "/Floruit/ sine fructu; /Defloruit/ sine luctu." "He flowered without fruit, and faded without regret." As we approached the end of our destination, we talked of the King.
If this made him a superficial statesman, it made him a prompt one; and there was never so lucky a minister with so little trouble to himself.* * At his death appeared the following pnnning epigram: "Floruit sine fructu; Defloruit sine luctu." "He flowered without fruit, and faded without regret." As we approached the end of our destination, we talked of the King.
He saw in this inflammable concentration of power, which must ever be pregnant with great evils, one of the causes why the revolutions of that powerful and polished people are so incomplete and unsatisfactory, why, like Cardinal Fleury, system after system, and Government after Government . . . "floruit sine fructu, Defloruit sine luctu."*
He is thought to have been a philosopher, but if so, he was anything but a talented one; most scholars place his floruit under the Antonines. He seems to have been a faithful abbreviator, at least as far as this, that he has added nothing of his own. Hence we may form a conception, however imperfect, of the value of Trogus's labours.
For the latter the most favourably situated provinces were those in the North, East, and South, Tabaristan, Khorasan, and Fars. As is well-known throughout the floruit of the Arab empire this province found itself in almost entire independence of the central power. Local dynasts called the Ispahbeds enjoyed practical independence and in those times Arabo-Moslem influences simply did not exist.
His floruit is given as 310 B. C. Dorian by birth, when Theophrastus was made head of the school he retired to the Peloponnese, and shows a certain prejudice against Athens. One of the discoveries of the time was biography. And, by a brilliant stroke of imagination Dicaearchus termed one of his books Βίος Ἑλλαδος, The Life of Hellas. He saw civilization as the biography of the world.
He saw in this inflammable concentration of power, which must ever be pregnant with great evils, one of the causes why the revolutions of that powerful and polished people are so incomplete and unsatisfactory, why, like Cardinal Fleury, system after system, and Government after Government ... "floruit sine fructu, Defloruit sine luctu."*
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