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For the composer see : Johann Stobäus . Joannes Stobaeus ( / doæns stobis / ; Greek :    ; fl . 5th - century CE ) , from Stobi in Macedonia , was the compiler of a valuable series of extracts from Greek authors . The work was originally divided into two volumes containing two books each . The two volumes became separated in the manuscript tradition , and the first volume became known as the Extracts ( also Eclogues ) and the second volume became known as the Anthology ( also Florilegium ) . Modern editions now refer to both volumes as the Anthology . The Anthology contains extracts from hundreds of writers , especially poets , historians , orators , philosophers and physicians . The subjects covered range from natural philosophy , dialectics , and ethics , to politics , economics , and maxims of practical wisdom . The work preserves fragments of many authors and works who otherwise might be unknown today . Stobi ( Macedonian :  , " Stobi ") was an ancient town of Paeonia , later conquered by Macedon , and later turned into the capital of the Roman province of Macedonia Salutaris ( now near Gradsko in the Republic of Macedonia ). It is located on the main road that leads from the Danube to the Aegean Sea and is considered by many to be the most famous archaeological site in the Republic of Macedonia . Stobi was built where the Erigón River ( mod . Crna ) joins the Axiós River ( mod . Vardar ), making it strategically important as a center for both trade and warfare . Medieval Latin was the form of Latin used in the Middle Ages , primarily : as a medium of scholarly exchange ; as the liturgical language of Chalcedonian Christianity and the Roman Catholic Church ; and as a language of science , literature , law , and administration . Despite the clerical origin of many of its authors , medieval Latin should not be confused with Ecclesiastical Latin . There is no real consensus on the exact boundary where Late Latin ends and medieval Latin begins . Some scholarly surveys begin with the rise of early Ecclesiastical Latin in the middle of the 4th century , others around ___MASK65___ , and still others with the replacement of written Late Latin by written Romance languages starting around the year 900 . Macedonia ( tr . " Makedonija "), officially the Republic of Macedonia ( Macedonian : , tr . " Republika Makedonija "), is a country in the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe . It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia , from which it declared independence in ___MASK95___ . It became a member of the United Nations in 1993 , but , as a result of an ongoing dispute with Greece over the use of the name " Macedonia ", was admitted under the provisional description the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia ( sometimes unofficially abbreviated as FYROM and FYR Macedonia ), a term that is also used by international organizations such as the European Union , the Council of Europe and NATO . In medieval Latin a ( plural ) was a compilation of excerpts from other writings . The word is from the Latin "" ( flower ) and "" ( to gather ): literally a gathering of flowers , or collection of fine extracts from the body of a larger work . It was adapted from the Greek " anthologia " (  ) " anthology ", with the same etymological meaning .