380–395), often erroneously called Flavius Lucius Dexter,[4][5][6] 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.
[1] He also served as proconsul of Asia under emperor Theodosius I (r. 379–395) and hold the position of praetorian prefect of Italy in 395.
It was in fact a forgery, one of a number of Jerónimo Román de la Higuera's (1538–1611), who published a collection of false documents in 1594 attributed to "Flavius Lucius Dexter" (alongside "Marcus Maximus" and "Eutrandus").
[7][6] The suspect authorship has been widely known since the work of the Spanish bibliographer Nicolás Antonio, the Censura de historias fabulosas, published in 1742.