Vegetius

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, commonly called Vegetius, was a writer of the Later Roman Empire. Open Library gives his birth as the 4th century AD and his death as the 5th century AD, and its biography states that nothing is known of his life or station beyond what he tells readers in his two surviving works. Those works are the Epitoma rei militaris, also referred to as De Re Militari, a Latin treatise on military matters, and the lesser known Digesta Artis Mulomedicinae, a guide to veterinary medicine. The catalogue lists him under several variant names, including Publius Flavius Vegetius, Publius Vegetius Renatus and Flavius Renatus Vegetius. He belongs to the Latin prose tradition of late antiquity.