“ Florus is important as being the first in order of a number of 2nd–century African writers who exercised a considerable influence on Latin literature, and also the first of the poëtae neoterici or novelli (new-fashioned poets) of Hadrian’s reign, whose special characteristic was the use of lighter and graceful metres (anapaestic and iambic dimeters) , which had hitherto found little favour.
The little poems will be found in E. Bährens, Poëtae Latini minores (1879–1883) ; for an unlikely identification of Florus with the author of the Pervigilium Veneris (q.v.) ”