Flavius Lucius Dexter
Flavius Lucius Dexter (b. 368 AD - d. 444 AD) was a figure of the late fourth century, reported as a historian, and a friend of St Jerome. He was the son of St Pacian, an imperial office-holder, and dedicatee of a work of Jerome, the "De Viris Illustribus". He was the supposed author of a chronicle, called the "Omnimoda Historia" or the "Chronicle of Pseudo-Dexter". It was in fact a forgery, one of a number of Román de la Higuera's (1538–1611), including the continuation attributed to Marcus Maximus, as scholars now agree. The suspect  authorship has been widely known since the work of the Spanish bibliographer Nicolás Antonio, the "Censura de historias fabulosas", published in 1742. Doubts were already cast on these false chronicles before 1600, but controversy continued late into the eighteenth century. The Cistercian François de Bivar (Bivarius) published a commentary and strong defence (Lyon, 1627). Later references to the Chronicle as genuine abound, e.g. its inclusion in part in the "Patrologia Latina". There is a second work attributed to him, "In prophetam Danielis de quatuor animalibus" ("Against the prophet Daniel on the four animals").