Celsus, Julius
a scholar at Constantinople in the seventh century after Christ.
Works
Recension of the text of Caesars Commentaries
He made a recension of the text of Caesar's Commentaries, whence we find subjoined to many MSS. of Caesar, Julius Celsus Vir Clarissimus et Comes recensui, or Julius Celsus Constantinus V. C. legi. Many modern writers, indeed, have maintained that Celsus was the author of these commentaries, and still more have attributed to him the works on the Spanish and African wars; but the former supposition is ridiculous, and the latter destitute of proof.
Life of Caesar ascribed to Celsus
Julius Celsus has been usually regarded as the author of the life of Caesar, but this work has been proved by C. E. Ch. Schneider (Petrarchae, Historia Julii Caesaris, Lips. 1827) to be a work of Petrarch's.
Editions
This has been frequently printed with the editions of Caesar's Commentaries under the title of Julii Celsi Commentarii de Vita Caesaris.
Further Information
There is a dissertation on Julius Celsus by Dodwell, appended to his Annales Quinctilianei et Statiani, Oxon. 1698.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.