Fraus Floris, a Flemish painter, whose real name was De Vriendt, born in Antwerp about 1520, died there, Oct. 1, 1570. He first studied sculpture and then painting, and established a school which brought forward many eminent artists. He enjoyed great popularity owing to his rapid and prolific pencil, and to the boldness of his designs. He was one of the most successful painters and one of the greatest drunkards of his day. His masterpiece,The Fall of the Rebel Angels," is in the Louvre. His other principal works are "The Last Judgment," in the church of Notre Dame at Brussels, and "The Assumption," in the Antwerp cathedral.

FLORl'S, Lucius Annaens, a Roman historian, probably of Spanish birth, lived under the emperors Trajan and Hadrian. He is the author of an epitome of Roman history, in four books, extending from the foundation of the city to the time when Augustus closed the temple of Janus. The work is believed by some to have been compiled from the lost books of Livy and other historians. The style is declamatory, abounding in extravagant conceits and metaphors, and panegyrics of the Romans. The Pervigilium Veneris and three other short poems are with little authority ascribed to this writer, and the Epitomm of the books of Livy have also been attributed to him.