Florus and the heavenly conversio to the Principality of Augustus

Florus, as a recurring strategy in his historical work, uses specific imagery to configure and interpret events and attract his reader’s attention, thereby enriching his descriptions of various important moments in Roman history. In his passage narrating the transition to Augustus’s Principate, Florus imagery, on the one hand, captures and displays a painful understanding of the loss of freedom on the Republican side, while, on the other hand, framing the necessity that heralded Augustus’s coming into power at the moment he did as something necessary for achieving the felicitas temporum of his era.