In the manuscripts, the writer is variously named as Julius Florus, Lucius Anneus Florus, or simply Annaeus Florus.
Florus has the senate turn down his application, but Livy describes his triumphal procession in elaborate detail.
The first edition of the Liber Memorialis was published in 1638 by Claudius Salmasius (Saumaise) from the Dijon manuscript, now lost, together with the Epitome of Florus.
Gaius Aquillius Florus was a consul of the Roman Republic in the year 259 BC.