Fenestella

Fenestella (born 52 bc—died ad 19) was a Latin poet and annalist whose lost work, the Annales, apparently contained a valuable store of antiquarian matter as well as historical narrative of the final century of the Roman Republic. Fenestella was used as a source by the 1st-century-ad historian Pliny the Elder, the 2nd-century biographer Suetonius, and the 4th-century grammarian Diomedes. Fenestella’s Annales was in at least 22 books and certainly included the year 57 bc,...