The "Scriptores Historiae Augustae, " or "Historia Augusta, " is a collection of biographies of Roman emperors, heirs, and claimants from Hadrian to Numerianus (117- 284 CE). The work, which is modeled on Suetonius, purports to be written by six different authors and quotes documents and public records extensively. Since we possess no continuous account of the emperors of the second and third centuries, the "Historia Augusta" has naturally attracted keen attention. In the last century it has also generated the gravest suspicions. Present opinion holds that the whole is the work of a single author (who lived in the time of Theodosius) and contains much that is plagiarism and even downright forgery. The Loeb Classical Library edition of the "Historia Augusta" is in three volumes.

皇史六傢，《羅馬君王傳》的作者署名為生活在戴剋裏先至君士坦丁時代的六位曆史學傢。他們分彆是：埃利烏斯·斯巴提亞努斯、尤利烏斯·卡庇托利努斯、武爾卡奇烏斯·加利卡努斯、埃利烏斯·拉普裏狄烏斯、特萊貝利烏斯·波利奧、弗拉維烏斯·沃庇斯庫斯·敘拉庫西烏斯。除去這六人都生活在羅馬城，且大都在朝中齣任高官之外，其他的信息後人便無從知曉瞭。

謝品巍，拉丁語的學習者和古羅馬曆史的愛好者，熱衷翻譯古羅馬人的傳世著作，已發錶的譯作有：尤特羅庇烏斯：《羅馬國史大綱》（Eutropii Breviarium ab Urbe Condita），佐西莫斯：《羅馬新史》（Zosimi Historia Nova），拉剋坦提烏斯：《論迫害者之死》（Lactantii De Mortibus Persecutorum）。